Empires of Coal

Empires of Coal
Author: Shellen Xiao Wu
Publisher: Studies of the Weatherhead Eas
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781503610101


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Underground Empires examines how Chinese views of strategic mineral resources developed in the last decades of the Qing dynasty.


Empires of Coal
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Shellen Xiao Wu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-22 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest
Empires of Coal
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Shellen Wu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-22 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest
Powering Empire
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: On Barak
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-24 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that
Coal
Language: en
Pages: 119
Authors: Mark C. Thurber
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-07 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today generates
Big Coal
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Jeff Goodell
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-03 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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