![]() He begins by offering a subtle critique of the prevailing explanations by E. He notes that few scholars embrace both meanings or show the movement in history between the two. ![]() ![]() He begins the book by comparing the two main meanings of the word “power” in English: (1) a force of nature or measure of physical work, and (2) a word that characterizes the hierarchical relationship between people. ![]() $29.95) is a detailed argument for the cause he has identified: capital, as embodied in a small number of industrialists who chose to burn coal and produce steam instead of choosing to power their textile mills with other alternatives that were available around the turn of the nineteenth century, including workers’ muscles, the muscles of draft animals, and water power. Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2016. A question that has challenged historians is why people in Britain converted to burning coal, inspiring other peoples to do the same, forever altering human history and, now we know, altering the planet in profound ways as well. Humanity’s accelerated burning of fossil fuels coincides with the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth century. ![]() The Earth is warming, due to humans burning fossil fuels. ![]()
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