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| Title Statement | Apocalypse: how catastrophe transformed our world and can forge new futures / Lizzie Wade. |
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| Author | Wade, Lizzie |
| Publication | New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,[2025]©2025 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | viii, 305 pages |
| ISBN | 9780063097308 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07839097 |
| Contents | Introduction : the end --How we misunderstood the apocalypse of human extinction --How sea level rise spurred ingenuity --How apocalypse brought people together --How apocalypses turn inequality into violence --How society collapses, but civilization survives --How post-apocalyptic societies reinvent themselves --How the apocalypse of colonialism has hidden in plain sight --How slavery created the modern world --Why we've stayed trapped in the apocalypse-and how we can find our way out --Epilogue : the beginning. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | "A new view on the human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, and a look at how the new tools of archaeology reveal these upheavals as moments that created the world we live in, and continue to offer surprising opportunities for radical change"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Archaeology and history |
| Catastrophical, The | |
| Civilization, Modern | |
| Future, The | |
| Human beings--Extinction | |
| Human beings--Forecasting | |
| Human ecology | |
