{"product_id":"to-govern-the-globe-world-orders-and-catastrophic-change-paperback","title":"To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlfred McCoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"History on an epic scale-sweeping, provocative, and unsparing in its judgment.\" --Andrew Bacevich, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAn immensely readable history, \u003cem\u003eTo Govern the Globe\u003c\/em\u003e narrates the rising empires and fading world orders of the last seven centuries, from the Iberian Age to the British Empire to the post-World War II American era. As historian Alfred McCoy explains, each world order has been defined by shifting principles of sovereignty, debates over human rights, and the quest for profitable forms of energy. Today as the US world order, with its voracious consumption of fossil fuels, faces mounting crises, McCoy shows how past patterns of energy use will trouble the planet for the rest of this century and beyond. This paperback edition has a new preface by the author. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfred McCoy\u003c\/strong\u003e holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Heroin\u003c\/em\u003e, the classic study of drug trafficking that the CIA tried to suppress, and \u003cem\u003eIn the Shadows of the American Century\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 380\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.57 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170622607495,"sku":"9781642599213","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a0441ea113e598d10714aee9c3ecdcb0.webp?v=1733349531","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/to-govern-the-globe-world-orders-and-catastrophic-change-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}