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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Clifford Singer |
| ISBN: | 9812791582 9789812791580 |
| OCLC Number: | 191658654 |
| Description: | xviii, 434 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. From Hammurabi to Napoleon -- 1. Just a commodity -- 2. Slaves, gold and silver -- 3. Sources of conflict until the concert of Europe -- Pt. 2. Coal and non-energy minerals -- 4. Steamer coal in the colonial era -- 5. Franco-Prussian War sets the stage -- 6. Coal and iron in the Great War -- 7. Coal in Asia before WWII -- 8. Coal, steel, customs, and the EU -- 9. Conflict over other solid mineral resources -- 10. An end to cross-border warfare over solid minerals? -- Pt. 3. Oil -- 11. Oil and commerce -- 12. Oil from WWI to WWII -- 13. Oil and World War II -- 14. Before the Iran-Iraq War -- 15. Iran and Iraq -- 16. Gulf War I -- 17. Sanctions and inspections -- 18. Iraq after 9/11/01 -- 19. Oil and war -- Pt. 4. Uranium, natural gas, and renewables -- 20. France and uranium -- 21. French neocolonialism in Africa -- 22. Natural gas resources and transport -- 23. Liquefied natural gas and security developments -- 24. Hydropower -- 25. Other renewable resources -- 26. It's about oil -- Pt. 5. The future -- 27. Troubled products -- 28. Uncoordinated consumers -- 29. Spoilers -- 30. Transition to sustainability. |
| Series Title: | World Scientific series on energy and resource economics :, vol. 6. |
| Responsibility: | Clifford E. Singer. |
Abstract:
Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies? This book answers this question by tracing the history of energy and conflict from antiquity, through the epic hot and cold wars.
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