Main entry:

Sieferle, Rolf Peter.

Title & Author:

The subterranean forest : energy systems and the Industrial Revolution / Rolf Peter Sieferle.

Publication:

Cambridge : The White Horse Press, 2001.

Description:

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index.
I. Energy Systems and Social Evolution. 1. Palaeolithic Hunter-gatherer Societies. 2. The Neolithic Revolution and the Problem of Dynamics. 3. Traditional Agriculture -- A Controlled Solar Energy System. 4. The Structure of the Agrarian Energy System. 5. The Dynamics of Agrarian Societies. 6. Crisis and Transformation. 7. The Industrial System and Fossil Energy -- II. Forest and Wood in Preindustrial Germany. 1. Natural Foundations. 2. Preindustrial Wood Consumption. 3. Regulation Problems -- III. England: Coal in the Industrial Revolution. 1. Substitution of Wood by Coal. 2. Wood and Coal in Iron Smelting. 3. Transport and Steam Power. 4. Significance of Coal in the Industrial Revolution -- IV. Germany in the 18th Century: Wood Crisis and Strategies for Solutions. 1. Conserving Wood. 2. Functional Separation of Agriculture and Forestry. 3. Substitution for Wood. 4. Was the Wood Crisis an Energy Crisis? -- V. Perceptions of Fossil Energy. 1. The Finiteness of Fossil Fuels. 2. Classical Political Economy and the Stationary State. 3. Jevons and the Contraction of the Industrial System. 4. Nuclear or Solar Energy.
Translated from the German.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

1874267472
9781874267478
1874267537 (pbk.)
9781874267539 (pbk.)

Subject:

Power resources Germany History.
Power resources Great Britain History.
Fuelwood industry Germany History.
Fuelwood industry Great Britain History.
Coal trade Germany History.
Coal trade Great Britain History.
Ressources énergétiques Allemagne Histoire.
Ressources énergétiques Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Bois de chauffage Industrie Allemagne Histoire.
Bois de chauffage Industrie Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Charbon Industrie Allemagne Histoire.
Charbon Industrie Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Coal trade.
Economic history.
Fuelwood industry.
Power resources.
Steenkool.
Hout.
Brandstoffen.
Industriële revolutie.
Germany Economic conditions History.
Great Britain Economic conditions History.
Allemagne Conditions économiques Histoire.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions économiques Histoire.
Germany.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296695
Call No.: BIB 243050
Status: Available