The Earth Transformed: An Untold History | Peter Frankopan in conversation with William Dalrymple

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History | Peter Frankopan in conversation with William Dalrymple
Historian and writer Peter Frankopan’s latest book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, is a revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time. Spanning centuries and continents, Frankopan explains how nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history and evaluates the fall of civilisations at the behest of Mother Nature.
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford. His book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, was named one of the Books of the Decade by The Sunday Times. The follow-up, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World, won the Human Sciences prize of the Carical Foundation. Frankopan’s new book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History was published in the spring of 2023 and went straight to No2 the Bestseller lists - behind a book about Air Fryers.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has been awarded five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently an Honorary Bodleian fellow and Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

[@daispy101]

What a wonderful conversation! Now I need to add Peter Frankopan's tomb to the pile of William Darlrymple books I am wading through. And all the better for it!

[@nicholaspearson4246]

I'm a 78 year old guy who loves Nature, children dogs good food, travel, etc but didn't father children because I felt in the 60's and the following period that the world was headed for catastrophe nuclear or otherwise So I identify fully with those younger generation people who don't want to bring children into a world that still looks like it is headed for very bad times. Need I say that those bad times have already arrived for many?

[@adminomhfoz1908]

the shadow between the two speakers is quite interesting

[@VernonGoddard]

I was brought up through the history filters of Modern times in Britain and Europe…..wars, kings and queens, Industrial Revolution, agrarian revolution etc etc……there seemed to be no history to discuss outside these except perhaps a couple of mentions of things happening in our Empire…..

[@philodonoghue3062]

Should be wearing mics

[@bookaufman9643]

Mr. Frankopan seems to like Mr Frankopan quite a bit.😊

[@shobadasari5363]

In your various studies in antiquity, what was the role of women apart from queens and queen consorts. While all the men were on campaign, and battles did women just stay at home and paid host. Did they ever qualify as philosophers, physicians or scientists worth talking about.