Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 298 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781538105047
Series Statement:
Exploring world history
Content:
This timely book tells the sweeping story of energy, tracing patterns of use in human history with an emphasis on the modern period. Contextualizing global history through the lens of the Anthropocene, Brian Black traces stages of industrialization, concluding with our current transition within the reality of climate change.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- I Energy Exchange in the Biological Old Regime (before 1400) -- 1 Energy in the Human Past -- Transitioning by the Numbers Biological Old Regime -- II Industrialization and the Great Reversal (1400-1920) -- 2 Colonialism, Mercantilism, and Empire -- Transitioning by the Numbers Industrialization -- 3 Fossil Fuels and the Transformation of Human Work -- 4 Energizing Everyday Human Life -- III Energy Broadens the Gap (1900-2000) -- 5 Energy and National Security -- 6 Energy Technology and Empire in the Cold War Era -- Transitioning by the Numbers High-Energy Existence -- 7 The Energy Gap Takes Shape -- IV Integrating Sustainability (2000-2022) -- Transitioning by the Numbers Considering Sustainable Energy -- 8 Energy Transitions and the Culture of Sustainability -- Epilogue -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781538105030
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781538105030
Language:
English
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