# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sunil Amrith
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railroads and highways that brought humans to new terrains of battle against each other and against stubborn nature. Amrith’s account of the ways in which the First and Second World Wars involved the massive mobilization not only of men, but of other natural resources from around the globe, provides an essential new way of understanding war as an irreversible reshaping of the planet. So too does this book reveal the reality of migration as consequence of environmental harm.

The imperial, globe-spanning pursuit of profit, joined with new forms of energy and new possibilities of freedom from hunger and discomfort, freedom to move and explore, has brought change to every inch of the Earth. Amrith relates in gorgeous prose, and on the largest canvas, a mind-altering epic—vibrant with stories, characters, and vivid images—in which humanity might find the collective wisdom to save itself.

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and Professor of the Environment at Yale University. He is the author of five books and recipient of multiple awards, including a MacArthur “genius” fellowship and the 2024 Fukuoka Prize.

"The Burning Earth" is available to purchase through our partner bookseller White Whale Bookstore.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/sunil-amrith/200029733074244
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://pittsburghlectures.culturaldistrict.org/production/98898/sunil-amrith?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Pittsburgh
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland
- **lat**: 40.443323867762
- **long**: -79.950940310955
- **full address**: Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland, 4400 Forbes Avenue,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures (https://allevents.in/org/pittsburgh-arts-and-lectures/2580233)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland, 4400 Forbes Avenue,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, fine-arts, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Sunil Amrith ?
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