
Fossil Capital
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In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy-but rather superior control of subordinate labour. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today. Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order.
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- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1: In the Heat of the Past: Towards a History of the Fossil Economy
- Chapter 2: Scarcity, Progress, the Nature of the Human Species? Theories of the Rise of Steam
- Chapter 3: The Long Life of the Flow: Industrial Energy Before Coal
- Chapter 4: 'There Are Mighty Energies in those Masses': Mobilising Power in a Time of Crisis
- Chapter 5: Puzzles of the Transition: The Lasting Advantages of Water
- Chapter 6: Fleeing the Flowing Commons: The Expansion of Waterpower That Never Happened
- Chapter 7: A Ticket to the Town: Advantages of Steam in Space
- Chapter 8: A Force to Count On: Advantages of Steam in Time
- Chapter 9: 'No Government but Fuel': The Derivation of Power from Coal in Bourgeois Ideology
- Chapter 10: 'Go and Stop the Smoke!': The Moment of Resistance against Steam
- Chapter 11: A Long Trail of Smoke: The Fossil Economy Consummated
- Chapter 12: The Myth of the Human Enterprise: Towards a Different Theory
- Chapter 13: Fossil Capital: The Energy Basis of Bourgeois Property Relations
- Chapter 14: China as Chimney of the World: Fossil Capital Today
- Chapter 15: A Return to the Flow? Obstacles to the Transition
- Chapter 16: Time to Pull the Plugs: On CO2 as an Effluent of Power
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
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