Apocalypse. How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
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- Nombre de pages336
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-0-06-309732-2
- EAN9780063097322
- Date de parution06/05/2025
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurHarper
Résumé
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 . A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year . A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the YearA richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how societal collapse and other cataclysmic events are not irrevocable endings, but transformations.
Perfect for fans of Sapiens or The Dawn of Everything. A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: What happened? The good news is, we've been here before. History is long, and people have already confronted just about every apocalypse we're facing today. But these days, archaeologists are getting better at seeing stories of human resilience, transformation, and even progress hidden within those histories of collapse and destruction.
Perhaps, we begin to see, apocalypses do not destroy worlds, but create them anew. Apocalypse offers a new way of understanding all of human history, reframing it as a series of crises and cataclysms that we survived, moments of choice in an evolution of humanity that has never been predetermined or even linear. Here Lizzie Wade asks us to reckon with our long-held narratives of these events, from the end of Old Kingdom Egypt, the collapse of the Classic Maya, to the Black Death, and, using the latest findings from archaeology, shows us how people lived through and beyond them-and even considered what a new world could look like in their wake.
The more we learn about apocalypses past, the more hope we have that we will survive our own. It won't be pleasant. It won't be fair. The world will be different on the other side, and our cultures and communities-perhaps even our species-will be different too. "Lizzie Wade is an exceptional journalist and a master storyteller. She reminds us that survival always has been, and still is, possible, and that our world always has been, and still is, a choice." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World"This book upended my understanding of the ancient world.
Wade renders our deep past in vivid prose, showing us that times of great rupture also bring great possibilities for new ways of living, if we let them. Apocalypse is the best kind of history book: vibrant and vital." -Zoë Schlanger, author of The Light EatersHow did our ancestors survive the end of their worlds-and what can they teach us about surviving our own? Ancient Civilizations: From the end of Old Kingdom Egypt to the fall of the Classic Maya, see how societies didn't just disappear, but adapted and transformed in the face of crisis.
Climate Instability: Witness the story of Doggerland, a lost world swallowed by the sea, to discover how ancient sea-level rise spurred astonishing human ingenuity. Human Survival: Go back to the deep past, when Homo sapiens were not the only humans, and uncover the surprising new story of Neanderthal extinction-and survival-revealed by ancient DNA. Lessons for Today: Connect the dots from the Black Death to our own turbulent present, learning how the lessons from apocalypses past offer hope for navigating the challenges of our future.
Perfect for fans of Sapiens or The Dawn of Everything. A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: What happened? The good news is, we've been here before. History is long, and people have already confronted just about every apocalypse we're facing today. But these days, archaeologists are getting better at seeing stories of human resilience, transformation, and even progress hidden within those histories of collapse and destruction.
Perhaps, we begin to see, apocalypses do not destroy worlds, but create them anew. Apocalypse offers a new way of understanding all of human history, reframing it as a series of crises and cataclysms that we survived, moments of choice in an evolution of humanity that has never been predetermined or even linear. Here Lizzie Wade asks us to reckon with our long-held narratives of these events, from the end of Old Kingdom Egypt, the collapse of the Classic Maya, to the Black Death, and, using the latest findings from archaeology, shows us how people lived through and beyond them-and even considered what a new world could look like in their wake.
The more we learn about apocalypses past, the more hope we have that we will survive our own. It won't be pleasant. It won't be fair. The world will be different on the other side, and our cultures and communities-perhaps even our species-will be different too. "Lizzie Wade is an exceptional journalist and a master storyteller. She reminds us that survival always has been, and still is, possible, and that our world always has been, and still is, a choice." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World"This book upended my understanding of the ancient world.
Wade renders our deep past in vivid prose, showing us that times of great rupture also bring great possibilities for new ways of living, if we let them. Apocalypse is the best kind of history book: vibrant and vital." -Zoë Schlanger, author of The Light EatersHow did our ancestors survive the end of their worlds-and what can they teach us about surviving our own? Ancient Civilizations: From the end of Old Kingdom Egypt to the fall of the Classic Maya, see how societies didn't just disappear, but adapted and transformed in the face of crisis.
Climate Instability: Witness the story of Doggerland, a lost world swallowed by the sea, to discover how ancient sea-level rise spurred astonishing human ingenuity. Human Survival: Go back to the deep past, when Homo sapiens were not the only humans, and uncover the surprising new story of Neanderthal extinction-and survival-revealed by ancient DNA. Lessons for Today: Connect the dots from the Black Death to our own turbulent present, learning how the lessons from apocalypses past offer hope for navigating the challenges of our future.
