Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization

The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East--as an idea--was made by coal....
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Author: On Barak
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Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization by Barak, On

Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization

$75.36

Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization

$75.36
Author: On Barak
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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: On Barak
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780520310728

About the Author
On Barak is a social historian of science and technology in non-Western settings, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt.

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