Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790-1880

Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790-1880

Decarbonising Imperial History

Conor, Liz

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2024

195

Dura

9783031511493

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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.
Coal;Carbon;Colonialism;Colonial expansion;Energy history;Fossil fuel;First nations;Imperial finance;Race;Indigenous history;Australia;Industrialisation;Coalonialism;Economic history;Carbon economy;British Empire;British colonies;Coal-fired colonialism;Coal extraction;Colonial modernity