Grand Transitions —— How the Modern World Was Made

----- 大转变：现代世界是如何形成的

ISBN: 9780190060664 出版年：2021 页码：385 Smil, Vaclav Oxford University Press

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today.