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Author : Robert James Forbes
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book More studies in early petroleum history written by Robert James Forbes and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Forbes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004612602
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book More Studies in Early Petroleum History (1860-1880) written by Forbes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1959-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. J. Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book More Studies in Early Petroleum History, 1860-1880 written by R. J. Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book More Studies in Early Petroleum History 1860-1880 written by Robert J. Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terence Daintith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1933115831
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Finders Keepers? written by Terence Daintith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Astrid Kander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168229
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Power to the People written by Astrid Kander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and steam engines--redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world. The Second Industrial Revolution continued this energy expansion and social transformation through the use of oil and electricity, but after 1970 Europe entered a new stage in which energy consumption has stabilized. This book challenges the view that the outsourcing of heavy industry overseas is the cause, arguing that a Third Industrial Revolution driven by new information and communication technologies has played a major stabilizing role. Power to the People offers new perspectives on the challenges posed today by climate change and peak oil, demonstrating that although the path of modern economic development has vastly increased our energy use, it has not been a story of ever-rising and continuous consumption. The book sheds light on the often lengthy and complex changes needed for new energy systems to emerge, the role of energy resources in economic growth, and the importance of energy efficiency in promoting growth and reducing future energy demand.
Author : Adam Mandelman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173193
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Place with No Edge written by Adam Mandelman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people’s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.
Author : Francis C. R. Thee
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161445521
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Julius Africanus and the Early Christian View of Magic written by Francis C. R. Thee and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1984 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sven-Eric Liedman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004528792
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Game of Contradictions written by Sven-Eric Liedman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and nineteenth-century science, Liedman’s work is here presented in English translation and with a new preface by the author.
Author : Peter Crawford
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399072846
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Emperor Leo III the Isaurian written by Peter Crawford and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-12-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Empire (long since ruled from Constantinople) was in a perilous and tumultuous position in the early eighth century. Surrounded by expansionist enemies, most notably the Muslim Arab Umayyad Caliphate but also the Khazars, Slavs, Avars, Bulgars and Lombards, it was also riven by religious controversy and internal political instability. When a plot brought Leo III to the throne in 717, he was the fourth Emperor since Justinian II’s assassination six years earlier. Within weeks of his accession he was faced with the year-long siege of his capital by the Arabs. The siege was eventually broken (with the help of the secret weapon, Greek fire) but was only the first of many crises Leo faced in his twenty-four-year reign. His tenure saw a number of rebellions, and Peter Crawford considers how Leo dealt with these (and the extent to which his own policies caused them). Space is given to the great religious development of his reign, the initiation of Iconoclasm, its impact on the empire and its tainting of the reputation of Leo and much of his dynasty. He also considers various aspects of Leo’s administration: coinage, provincial infrastructure, civil law and foreign policy. This is a thorough and fascinating reassessment of a ruler who brought the Empire from the brink of extinction and maintained it through a time of real crisis.
Author : Jon Wlasiuk
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983249
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Refining Nature written by Jon Wlasiuk and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke, and created a consumer safety crisis by selling kerosene below congressional standards. Local governments, guided by a desire to favor the interests of business, deployed elaborate engineering solutions to tackle petroleum pollution at taxpayer expense rather than heed public calls to abate waste streams at their source. Only when refinery pollutants threatened the health of the Great Lakes in the twentieth century did the federal government respond to a nascent environmental movement. Organized around the four classical elements at the core of Standard Oil’s success (earth, air, fire, and water), Refining Nature provides an ecological context for the rise of one of the most important corporations in American history.
Author : Carola Hein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000449491
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Oil Spaces written by Carola Hein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation-states. It has fueled ways of life and visions of progress, modernity, and disaster. In detailed international case studies, the contributors consider petroleum’s role in the built environment and the imagination. They study how petroleum and its infrastructure have served as a source of military conflict and political and economic power, inspiring efforts to create territories and reshape geographies and national boundaries. The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. By revealing petroleum’s role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future. It will be invaluable reading to scholars and students of architectural and urban history, planning, and geography of sustainable urban environments.
Author : H.R. Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000921239
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Viking Road to Byzantium written by H.R. Ellis Davidson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such unexpected places as a Romanian chalk quarry near the Black Sea, among the carved stones of ancient Thrace and in Constantinople itself, the Miklagard of northern literature.
Author : Michael Mineiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400725671
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Space Technology Export Controls and International Cooperation in Outer Space written by Michael Mineiro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Export controls definitively impact international cooperation in outer space. Civil and commercial space actors that engage in international endeavors must comply with space technology export controls. In the general discourse, members of the civil and commercial space community have an understanding of their domestic export control regime. However, a careful reading of the literature on space technology export controls reveals that certain questions relevant to international engagements have not been identified or answered. What is the legal-political origin of space technology export controls? How do they relate to the current international legal structure? What steps can be taken to evolve our current unilateral paradigm of space technology within the context of peaceful exploration and use of outer space? In this book, these and other relevant questions on space technology export controls are identified and assessed through an insightful case-study of the U.S. commercial communication export control regime. The findings of this case-study are used in an international legal-political analysis of international space law, public international law, and international cooperation. Breaking new ground in international legal theory, a self-justified security dilemma that is manifest in international law is identified and explained as the origin for the current paradigm of space technology export controls.
Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471104753
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Prize written by Daniel Yergin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
Author : Alfred Rupert Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Technology written by Alfred Rupert Hall and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Oil's First Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
