Power to the People : : Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries / / Astrid Kander, Paul Warde, Paolo Malanima.
Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Introduction
- Chapter Two. Definitions and Concepts
- PART I Pre-Industrial Economies Paolo Malanima
- Chapter Three. Traditional Sources
- Chapter Four. Constraints and Dynamics
- PART II. The First Industrial Revolution
- Chapter Five. A Modern Energy Regime
- Chapter Six. The Coal Development Block
- Chapter Seven. Energy and Industrial Growth
- PART III. The Second and Third Industrial Revolutions
- Chapter Eight. Energy Transitions in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter Nine. Major Development Blocks in the Twentieth Century and Their Impacts on Energy
- Chapter Ten. The Role of Energy in Twentieth-Century Economic Growth
- Chapter Eleven. Summary and Implications For the Future
- Appendixes
- References
- Index
- Backmatter