Carbon technocracy -- Vertical natures -- Technological enterprise -- Fueling anxieties -- Imperial extraction -- Nationalist reconstruction -- Socialist industrialization -- Exhausted limits. "Carbon Technocracy illustrates how the rise of the fossil fuel economy in East Asia …
"Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into industrial labour, but i…
"Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, foc…
"This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel slavery, West Virginias Black working class gradually …
"The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians -- most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes i…
