World-Power and Evolution by Ellsworth Huntington audiobook.

Genre: history

In World-Power and Evolution (1919), Yale geographer Ellsworth Huntington widens his famous climate-and-civilization argument from the map to the timeline, asking a sweeping question: if environment helps shape where civilization flourishes, can shifting weather and climate also help explain when nations surge, stall, or decline? Writing in the shadow of World War I, Huntington blends climatology, public health, economics, and early evolutionary thought to trace how year-to-year variability in weather may influence human vitality, disease, and productivity, and how those human changes ripple outward into trade, social stability, and the capacities that underpin world power. Moving between broad theory and pointed case studies, he considers the role of variability itself, the conditions that may favor mental development, and the long arc by which environments select for different traits in animals and people. He then tests his framework against historical and contemporary examples, including Rome and modern European rivalries, building a provocative portrait of history as a contest shaped not only by leaders and ideas, but also by heat, cold, rain, and the rhythms of health.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:05) Chapter 01

(00:25:49) Chapter 02

(00:56:20) Chapter 03

(01:11:17) Chapter 04

(01:24:47) Chapter 05

(01:53:14) Chapter 06

(02:24:49) Chapter 07

(03:00:48) Chapter 08

(03:46:40) Chapter 09

(04:17:57) Chapter 10

(05:02:38) Chapter 11

(05:44:22) Chapter 12

(06:21:52) Chapter 13

(06:53:28) Chapter 14

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