MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
John McNeill
University Professor, Georgetown University
"Empires of Energy, 1580-1980: Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics"
This talk considers the links between energy regimes and political
power in the international system over the past 400 years. How did
the availability and use of fossil fuels affect the affairs of
nations? In particular, how did peat, coal, and oil help the Dutch
Republic, the British Empire, and the United States in their quests
for survival and power? What might be the geopolitical implications
of the next energy regime?
Friday, May 2, 2008
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge
Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the
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