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Encompassing both tragedy and humour, it brings immediacy and intimacy to a moment of deep historical transformation - with consequences that echo down to today.'Dazzling .

For thousands of years, the arctic was deamed largely uninhabitable, home only to a small, indigenous population viewed as having been left behind by history. It was considered marginal to world affairs. Now, however, it is heating up and the consequence of that warming will definitely affect the entire world. Charles Emmerson eloquently describes the evolution of the arctic and the future consequences of that evolution.

Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features--last summers in grand aristocratic residences--or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of revolution, violence in the Balkans.

In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative,...

In 'The Future History of the Arctic', geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region with reportage & reflection, revealing a vast & complex area of the globe, loaded with opportunity & rich in challenges.