Coal & empire : the birth of energy security in industrial America /
Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in te...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : In which the President seeks an audience with the King
- Chapter 1. Empire and the politics of information
- Chapter 2. Engineering economy
- Chapter 3. The economy of time and space
- Chapter 4. The slavery solution
- Chapter 5. The debate over coaling stations
- Chapter 6. Inventing logistics
- Conclusion : Energy and security in perspective
- Chronological listing of cited Congressional publications from the United States Serial Set
- Notes
- Bibliographic essay
- Index.