{"product_id":"in-the-servitude-of-power-jean-paul-delage-9780862329433","title":"In the Servitude of Power: Energy and Civilization Through the Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis stimulating, informative and at times frightening book provides an overall history of energy usage as a fundamental factor in the evolution of the world's major civilizations, from pre-history to the present day. It serves as a history of human impact on the biosphere and the consequences of this for the rise and fall of civilizations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors look in detail at how different forms of energy use have shaped society in the earliest civilizations - Egypt, Mesopotamia and India - as well as in Ancient Greece and Rome, Imperial China, Medieval Europe, and during the industrial revolution. They go on to cover the rise of the internal combustion engine, electrification, oil, nuclear power, and contemporary ecological problems. They show how all societies are dependent on fragile and unstable energy systems that combine particular technical knowledge, conceptions of nature, and relations of power. When this system reaches its limits, a major crisis is inevitable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur own world is entering such a crisis as we exhaust our non-renewable resources and confront the consequences of global warming. And the Third World and Eastern Europe face even worse dilemmas. As for nuclear energy, the authors show it to be an economically unviable attempt to shore up an outworn system. They ask whether there is any technical way of overcoming these limits other than an overall change in the way our society functions. In the Servitude of Poweris an authoritative and comprehensive guide to what promises to be the end of an era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Paul Del饌ge, Jean-Claude Debeir, Daniel H駑ery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0862329434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780862329433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d","brand":"Jean-Paul Del饌ge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980658999551,"sku":"9780862329433","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c4b2c44f-06de-436b-969d-67097760aea3.jpg?v=1683251158","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-servitude-of-power-jean-paul-delage-9780862329433","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}