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Children of the sun : a history of humanity's unappeasable appetite for energy / Alfred W. Crosby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crosby, Alfred W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power resources.
- Power resources--History.
- Solar energy--History.
- Solar energy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [2006]
- Summary:
- The author, a founder of the field of global history, reveals how humanity's success hinges directly on effective uses of sun energy and on man's ingenuity and adaptability as dwindling natural resources, global warming, and environmental pollution limit a fossil-fuel civilization.
- Contents:
- Part I The Largess of the Sun 1
- 1 Fire and Cooking 7
- 2 Agriculture 25
- 3 The Columbian Exchange 45
- Part II Fossilized Sunshine 59
- 4 Coal and Steam 63
- 5 Oil and the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) 85
- 6 Electricity 101
- Part III Energy at the Turn of the Third Millennium 117
- 7 Fission 127
- 8 Fusion 147
- 9 The Anthropocene 159.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-180) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393059359
- OCLC:
- 61456528
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