Coal And Empire
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Author |
: Peter A. Shulman |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 333 |
Release |
: 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421417073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421417073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coal and Empire by : Peter A. Shulman
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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520973930 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520973933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Powering Empire by : On Barak
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 |
: Shellen Xiao Wu |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2015-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804794732 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804794731 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empires of Coal by : Shellen Xiao Wu
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China. Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910s, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes. In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world.
Author |
: Empire State Iron and Coal Mining Company |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1862 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:704413793 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plan of the Empire State Iron and Coal Mining Company by : Empire State Iron and Coal Mining Company
Author |
: Crosbie Smith |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2018-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107196728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107196728 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coal, Steam and Ships by : Crosbie Smith
An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.
Author |
: Empire Coal Company |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 1855 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:78446134 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Charter and By-laws of the Empire Coal Company of the Wyoming Coal Region, by : Empire Coal Company
Author |
: Barbara Freese |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780099478843 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0099478846 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coal by : Barbara Freese
Coal has transformed societies, and shaped the fate of nations. It launched empires and triggered wars. Above all, it fuelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain, propelling the rise of a small rural kingdom into the greatest commercial empire in the world. Taking us on a rich historical journey that begins on the banks of the river Tyne, Barbara Freese explores the profound role coal has played in human history, and continues to play in today's world. The first half of the book is set in Britain, and tells how coal transformed Britain and ushered in the industrial age. The rest of the book looks at America and China, at the birth of the unions, and the closing of the mines, and at the energy industry today. With oil prices on the rise and no end in sight to our insatiable appetite for energy, the world is turning again to coal.
Author |
: Edward Hull |
Publisher |
: Sagwan Press |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2018-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1376716836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781376716832 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Coal-Fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources. with Descriptions of the Coal-Fields of Our Indian and Colonial Empire, and by : Edward Hull
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Author |
: Shellen Wu |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804792844 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804792844 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empires of Coal by : Shellen Wu
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China. Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910s, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes. In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world.
Author |
: Edward Hull |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1330543564 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781330543566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Coal-Fields of Great Britain by : Edward Hull
Excerpt from The Coal-Fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure, and Resources; Description of the Coal-Fields of Our Indian and Colonial Empire, and of Other Parts of the World So many years have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of this work, and so great has been the advance in our knowledge of the Coal-fields of nearly all countries within this period, that, in order to make the reader acquainted with it, I have found it necessary to re-write the greater portion of the book. Within the interval here alluded to, the following are some of the more important events which have occurred in reference to the subjects herein treated: - 1. A great step towards completion has been made in the Government surveys of the British coal-fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.