To Govern the GlobeIn a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, To Govern the Globe explains how a succession of catastrophesfrom the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders. During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar