The Energy of Slaves
Oil and the New Servitude
A robustly researched and smoothly written overview of the many challenges confronting our devotion to fossil fuels from the author of Tar Sands (Quill & Quire). Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world's most versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished slavery's ranks with combustion engines and other labor-saving tools. Since then, cheap oil has t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-55365-979-2
- EAN: 9781553659792
- Produktnummer: 21848092
- Verlag: Greystone Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 298 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'570 KB
Über den Autor
Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning Canadian journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His books include Pandemonium; Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Oil, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; The Fourth Horseman; and Tar Sands, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and became a national bestseller. His most recent book, Empire of the Beetle, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and selected as a top book of the year by both the Globe & Mail and amazon.ca. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.
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