The Age Of Coal
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Author | : Franz-Josef Brüggemeier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2024-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192896938 |
The Age of Coal describes the enormous contribution of coal to the history of Europe over the last 250 years and how it helped to transform the way we live, transforming industrialisation; transport; home life; organic chemistry; international relations; the labour market and labour organization; as well as the vast environmental impact.
Author | : Timothy Mitchell |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1781681163 |
“A brilliant, revisionist argument that places oil companies at the heart of 20th century history—and of the political and environmental crises we now face.” —Guardian Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from oil production, and in the places that have the greatest demand for energy. Timothy Mitchell begins with the history of coal power to tell a radical new story about the rise of democracy. Coal was a source of energy so open to disruption that oligarchies in the West became vulnerable for the first time to mass demands for democracy. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the development of cheap and abundant energy from oil, most notably from the Middle East, offered a means to reduce this vulnerability to democratic pressures. The abundance of oil made it possible for the first time in history to reorganize political life around the management of something now called “the economy” and the promise of its infinite growth. The politics of the West became dependent on an undemocratic Middle East. In the twenty-first century, the oil-based forms of modern democratic politics have become unsustainable. Foreign intervention and military rule are faltering in the Middle East, while governments everywhere appear incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to end the age of carbon democracy—the disappearance of cheap energy and the carbon-fuelled collapse of the ecological order. In making the production of energy the central force shaping the democratic age, Carbon Democracy rethinks the history of energy, the politics of nature, the theory of democracy, and the place of the Middle East in our common world.
Author | : Mark C. Thurber |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 150951404X |
By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping to drive economic growth in major emerging markets. And yet, continued reliance on this ancient rock carries a high price in smog and greenhouse gases. We use coal because it is cheap: cheap to scrape from the ground, cheap to move, cheap to burn in power plants with inadequate environmental controls. In this book, Mark Thurber explains how coal producers, users, financiers, and technology exporters drive this supply chain, while fragmented environmental movements battle for full incorporation of environmental costs into the global calculus of coal. Delving into the politics of energy versus the environment at local, national, and international levels, Thurber paints a vivid picture of the multi-faceted challenges associated with continued coal production and use in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Peter A. Shulman |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421417073 |
The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security. Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of security, and they did so beginning in the nineteenth century: the age of coal. Coal and Empire insightfully weaves together pivotal moments in the history of science and technology by linking coal and steam to the realms of foreign relations, navy logistics, and American politics. Long before oil, coal allowed Americans to rethink the place of the United States in the world. Shulman explores how the development of coal-fired oceangoing steam power in the 1840s created new questions, opportunities, and problems for U.S. foreign relations and naval strategy. The search for coal, for example, helped take Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan in the 1850s. It facilitated Abraham Lincoln's pursuit of black colonization in 1860s Panama. After the Civil War, it led Americans to debate whether a need for coaling stations required the construction of a global empire. Until 1898, however, Americans preferred to answer the questions posed by coal with new technologies rather than new territories. Afterward, the establishment of America's string of island outposts created an entirely different demand for coal to secure the country's new colonial borders, a process that paved the way for how Americans incorporated oil into their strategic thought. By exploring how the security dimensions of energy were not intrinsically linked to a particular source of power but rather to political choices about America's role in the world, Shulman ultimately suggests that contemporary global struggles over energy will never disappear, even if oil is someday displaced by alternative sources of power.
Author | : On Barak |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520973933 |
The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that wreaks carnage today, as carbonization threatens our very climate. Powering Empire argues that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. How did this black rock come to have such long-lasting power over the world economy? Focusing on the flow of British carbon energy to the Middle East, On Barak excavates the historic nexus between coal and empire to reveal the political and military motives behind what is conventionally seen as a technological innovation. He provocatively recounts the carbon-intensive entanglements of Western and non-Western powers and reveals unfamiliar resources—such as Islamic risk-aversion and Gandhian vegetarianism—for a climate justice that relies on more diverse and ethical solutions worldwide.
Author | : North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Mechanical engineering |
ISBN | : |
Vols. 19 and 22 contain a Catalogue of institute library, separately paged.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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Vols. for 1955-1962 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.
Author | : David M. Williams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429770448 |
Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field. containing articles selected by a distinguished scholar, as well as an authoritative new introduction by the volume editor. The book will form an essential foundation to the study of the history of shipping.
Author | : Sean Dennis Cashman |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1988-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814714102 |
The book contains the results of research into primary sources and recent scholarship with an emphasis on leading personalities and anecdotes about them.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1472 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Iron industry and trade |
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