Barak On
Barak On - Powering Empire How Coal Made The Middle East And Sparked Global Carbonization - Hardcover
Barak On - Powering Empire How Coal Made The Middle East And Sparked Global Carbonization - Hardcover
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Description: 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.
Title: Powering Empire How Coal Made The Middle East And Sparked Global Carbonization
Author(s): Barak On
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520310728
Pages: 344 Pages, 29 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/24/2020
Category: History Of Engineering & Technology
Description: 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.
Title: Powering Empire How Coal Made The Middle East And Sparked Global Carbonization
Author(s): Barak On
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520310728
Pages: 344 Pages, 29 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/24/2020
Category: History Of Engineering & Technology
