Power to the People: Energy in Europe Over the Last Five Centuries

by Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, Paul Warde

Book Overview

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and steam engines--redrew the economic, social,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143625
• ISBN13: 9780691143620
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"