To Have and Have Not: Energy in World History

The book "To Have and Have Not" by Brian Black is a Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title that explores the history of energy, tracing its development from fire to agriculture, water wheels to electric dynamos, and its impact on global standing, economic and political power, and current policy making. It highlights the connection between history and current events and emphasizes the need for a shift to cleaner energy in the face of climate change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 310 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title, Written by a Leading Scholar, This Essential Introduction to the History of Energy Traces One of Humans Most Basic Ecological Interactions: Energy Exchange. From Fire to Agriculture, Water Wheels to Electric Dynamos, the Rise in Intensity Led Humans to Define a New "High Energy" Existence During the Twentieth Century. Industrialization and Consumption Increased the Connection Between Energy and Economic and Political Power, Clarifying Its Importance Throughout the World Wars and Into the Cold War. To Have and Have Not Reveals a World in Which Energy Supply Now Defines Global Standing, Starkly Revealing the Connection Between History and Current Events That Perfectly Situates Our Modern Conundrum of a Future Without Fossil Fuels. Climate Change and the Supply of Sustainable Energy Now Permeates Our Modern Policy Making as We Bear Witness to the Waning Years of Energy Borrowed from the Distant Past. Brian Black Argues That Our History of Growing Energy Reliance and Past Transitions Is Essential Context for Understanding Our Inevitable Shift to Cleaner Energy. Placing This Story Within the Current, Rapidly Changing Historical Discourse, This Book Is Timely and Persuasive as It Lays Out Our Current Transition from Fossil Fuels.

Weight: 585g
Dimension: 236 x 161 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538105030