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To have and have not : energy in world history / Brian C. Black.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Brian, 1966- Author.
- Series:
- Exploring world history.
- Exploring world history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Energy industries--History.
- Energy industries.
- Power resources--History.
- Power resources.
- Power resources--Political aspects--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2023.
- Other Title:
- Energy in world history
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Campus eBookstore Inc - CEI, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Written by a leading scholar, this essential introduction to the history of energy traces one of humans' most basic ecological interactions: energy exchange. From fire to agriculture, water wheels to electric dynamos, the rise in intensity led humans to define a new "high energy" existence during the twentieth century. Industrialization and consumption increased the connection between energy and economic and political power, clarifying its importance throughout the world wars and into the Cold War. To Have and Have Not reveals a world in which energy supply now defines global standing, starkly revealing the connection between history and current events that perfectly situates our modern conundrum of a future without fossil fuels. Climate change and the supply of sustainable energy now permeates our modern policy making as we bear witness to the waning years of energy borrowed from the distant past. Brian Black argues that our history of growing energy reliance and past transitions is essential context for understanding our inevitable shift to cleaner energy. Placing this story within the current, rapidly changing historical discourse, this book is timely and persuasive as it lays out our current transition from fossil fuels"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The urgency of our relationship with energy
- Energy Exchange in the Biological Old Regime (Before 1400). Energy in the human past
- Transitioning by the numbers : biological old regime
- Industrialization and the Great Reversal (1400-1920). Colonialism, mercantilism, and empire
- Transitioning by the numbers : industrialization
- Fossil fuels and the transformation of human work
- Energizing everyday human life
- Energy Broadens the Gap (1900-2000). Energy and national security
- Energy technology and empire in the Cold War era
- Transitioning by the numbers : high-energy existence
- The energy gap takes shape
- Integrating Sustainability (2000-2022). Transitioning by the numbers : considering sustainable energy
- Energy transitions and the culture of sustainability
- Epilogue: Divining our energy future: game over or game on?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 279-298).
- Print Version Record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42841-1
- 1-5381-0504-7
- OCLC:
- 1474104411
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