Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880 Decarbonising Imperial History /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Conor, Liz (Editor)
Summary:	XXIII, 193 p. 10 illus., 1 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed. 2024.
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,
Subjects:	Imperialism. World history. Human ecology > History. Great Britain > History. Science > History. Australasia. History. Imperialism and Colonialism. World History, Global and Transnational History. Environmental History. History of Britain and Ireland. History of Science. Australian History.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51150-9
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 01: Cotton, coal, colonialism: Re-thinking the fossil economy in the geopolitical context of British imperialism
Chapter 02: Colonial Staples: Steam Imperialism in Britain’s Carbon Frontier of Victoria
Chapter 03: Steam-powered but Wood-fired: Coal and Renewable Energy in Colonial Economies
Chapter 04: Awabakal and Nikkin: Reconnecting histories of first peoples, coal and colonists
Chapter 05: Carbon Old and New: The Australian Agricultural Company, Coal, Wood and the complexities of energy transition in New South Wales, 1825 – 1847
Chapter 06: Cheap energy, cheap nature: Newcastle/ Awabakal coals in colonial capitalism, 1850-1880.

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