Door grote uitvindingen in en innovatie van de landbouw is de productie van voedsel gigantisch gegroeid. Razendsnelle ontwikkelingen hebben ervoor gezorgd dat de levensverwachting van miljarden mensen binnen een tijdsbestek van enkele decennia overal ter wereld sterk is toegenomen.  Meer

Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of The New Yorker's "Essential Reads" of 2024 • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024 "[An] epic exploration of human innovation and destruction.  Meer

Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea.  Meer

Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea.  Meer

This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists etc.  Meer