Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
Selected Colleen Hoover Books at €9.99c | In-store & Online
Selected Colleen Hoover Books at €9.99c | In-store & Online
A01=Matthieu Auzanneau
A23=Richard Heinberg
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Matthieu Auzanneau
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBG
Category=JPSL
Category=KNBP
Category=THF
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch

Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History

4.45 (132 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Matthieu Auzanneau

Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs

Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.Nature

The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases.

Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a peoples history, award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them?

With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our livesand illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the worlds easily and cheaply extractable reserves.

 

 

See more
Current price €23.39
Original price €25.99
Save 10%
A01=Matthieu AuzanneauA23=Richard HeinbergAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Matthieu Auzanneauautomatic-updateCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=HBGCategory=JPSLCategory=KNBPCategory=THFCOP=United StatesDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€20 to €50PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 934g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781603589789

About Matthieu Auzanneau

Matthieu Auzanneau is the director of The Shift Project a European think tank focusing on energy transition and the resources required to make the shift to an economy free from fossil fuel dependence and also from greenhouse gas emissions. Previously he was a journalist based in France and mostly writing for Le Monde. He continues to write his Le Monde blog Oil Man which he describes as a chronicle of the beginning of the end of petroleum. The original French edition of this book Or Noir: La grande histoire du pétrole was awarded the Special Prize of the French Association of Energy Economists in 2016.  Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. He is the author of several influential books on resource depletion including Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century Of Declines.

Customer Reviews

No reviews yet
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept