Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by: Malm, Andreas
Softcover. London, England, Verso, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a Marxist critique of climate change. It argues that the reliance on fossil fuels originated in the 19th-century British textile industry. Industrialists adopted coal-fired steam engines not for better efficiency, but because they offered superior control over a captive workforce compared to river-based water mills. Clean copy. Record # 34578