Lizzie Wade

Apocalypse (eBook, ePUB)

How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A 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 cataclysmic events are not irrevocable endings, but transformations

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 survival, 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 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 shows us how people lived through and beyond themand 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 communitiesperhaps even our specieswill be different too.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063097322
• Artikelnr.: 72299535

Autorenporträt

Lizzie Wade is an award-winning journalist and correspondent for the prestigious journal Science. She covers archaeology, anthropology, and Latin America for the magazine's print and online news sections. Her work has also appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, Slate, the New York Times, Aeon, Smithsonian, and Archaeology, among other publications. She lives in Mexico City.

Rezensionen

"An extraordinary book. Wade tells the stories of ancient peoples experiencing their own apocalypses with vivacity and tenderness. By showing us the ways in which they were transformed-even in the midst of catastrophe-she invites us to turn away from despair and apathy and embrace the creativity and compassion that has made humans so resilient." - Jennifer Raff, author of Origin and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas

"The world has ended many times and usually, amazingly, humans keep going. Rooted in solid science that never loses sight of the human and the possible, this book shows us why good stories and an understanding of history matter more than ever."
- Agustín Fuentes, author of The Creative Spark and professor of anthropology at Princeton University


"A fascinating dive into the tragedies - and comebacks - of those that came before us. Lizzie Wade combines detailed research with clear writing to bring these historical events to life - they're stories that will stick with me for a long time. Apocalypse shows us the strength of human ingenuity, which we shouldn't just admire but learn from, so that we can stand up to the problems we face today." - Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World and Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford