Fossil capital : the rise of steam-power and the roots of global warming / Andreas Malm. (Text)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-468) and index.

In the heat of the past : towards a history of the fossil economy -- Scarcity, progress, the nature of the human species? Theories of the rise of steam -- The long life of the flow : industrial energy before coal -- 'There are mighty energies in those masses' : mobilising power in a time of crisis -- Puzzles of the transition : the lasting advantages of water -- Fleeing the flowing commons : the expansion of waterpower that never happened -- A ticket to the town : advantages of steam in space -- A force to count on : advantages of steam in time -- 'No government but fuel' : the derivation of power from coal in bourgeois ideology -- 'Go and stop the smoke!' : the moment of resistance against steam -- A long trail of smoke : the fossil economy consummated -- The myth of the human enterprise : towards a different theory -- Fossil capital : the energy basis of bourgeois property relations -- China as chimney of the world : fossil capital today -- A return to the flow? Obstacles to the transition -- Time to pull the plugs : on CO₂ as an effluent of power.