A01=Amr Khairy
Anthropocene
Author_Amr Khairy
British
Capital
capitalism
Category=JPFC
Category=JPFF
Category=KCSA
Category=NHTK
change
climate
Egypt
empire
energy
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
forthcoming
Fossil
Global
history
industrial
justice
Malm
Marxist
Mitchell
of
power
renewables
revolution
steam
technology
Timothy
Warming
Product details
- ISBN 9781836740568
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Beginning in the 1820s, Egypt became one of the first non-European countries to pursue steam-driven industrialization after Britain. This new account of 19th-century Egypt traces how fossil capital began in the Nile Valley, entangling imperial ambition, forced dependency, debt and colonialism.
From European engineers and financiers to Pashas, peasants, and plantation workers, Khairy follows the human and environmental toll of industrial modernity. We encounter boilers exploding, oxen dying in polluted canals, rebels executed for resisting machines they believed were powered by underground demons demanding their children's futures.
A sweeping story of empire, extraction, and resistance, this is a vital history of capitalism's global spread.
From European engineers and financiers to Pashas, peasants, and plantation workers, Khairy follows the human and environmental toll of industrial modernity. We encounter boilers exploding, oxen dying in polluted canals, rebels executed for resisting machines they believed were powered by underground demons demanding their children's futures.
A sweeping story of empire, extraction, and resistance, this is a vital history of capitalism's global spread.
Amr Khairy Ahmed is an Egyptian historian and scholar whose research focuses on the social and environmental history of energy, industrialization, and capitalism in the Middle East.
