Sources of Power: How Energy Forges Human History [2 Volumes]A landmark book rolls out a bold, new, energy-based theory of human history based on a simple, yet powerful law: whoever controls the world's effective energy supplies during a given energy age will inevitably dominate the economic, political, and cultural history of that age. After proving the operation of his law through history and into the present, Weissenbacher applies it to global geopolitical trends. He assesses the prospects of the various candidate technologies to succeed oil and charts future scenarios based on the distribution of energy reserves. Finally, he forecasts the fates of the American and Chinese empires in the twilight of the oil age: the United States as a mature superpower forced to deploy military might to occupy oilfields in the Middle East; China as an emerging superpower forced to deploy economic might to muscle in on the development of Third World oilfields.
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Sources of Power: How Energy Forges Human History [2 volumes] Manfred Weissenbacher Limited preview - 2009 |
Sources of Power: How Energy Forges Human History [2 Volumes] Manfred Weissenbacher No preview available - 2009 |
Sources of Power: How Energy Forges Human History, Volume 1 Manfred Weissenbacher No preview available - 2009 |