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Book Coal and Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter A. Shulman
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2015-07-01
  • ISBN : 1421417073
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Coal and Empire written by Peter A. Shulman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security. Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of security, and they did so beginning in the nineteenth century: the age of coal. Coal and Empire insightfully weaves together pivotal moments in the history of science and technology by linking coal and steam to the realms of foreign relations, navy logistics, and American politics. Long before oil, coal allowed Americans to rethink the place of the United States in the world. Shulman explores how the development of coal-fired oceangoing steam power in the 1840s created new questions, opportunities, and problems for U.S. foreign relations and naval strategy. The search for coal, for example, helped take Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan in the 1850s. It facilitated Abraham Lincoln's pursuit of black colonization in 1860s Panama. After the Civil War, it led Americans to debate whether a need for coaling stations required the construction of a global empire. Until 1898, however, Americans preferred to answer the questions posed by coal with new technologies rather than new territories. Afterward, the establishment of America's string of island outposts created an entirely different demand for coal to secure the country's new colonial borders, a process that paved the way for how Americans incorporated oil into their strategic thought. By exploring how the security dimensions of energy were not intrinsically linked to a particular source of power but rather to political choices about America's role in the world, Shulman ultimately suggests that contemporary global struggles over energy will never disappear, even if oil is someday displaced by alternative sources of power.

Book House documents

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1882
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1200 pages

Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chiriqui Improvement Company

Download or read book The Chiriqui Improvement Company written by Chiriqui Improvement Company and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chiriqui Improvement Company  Charter  Grants  By Laws  and Organization

Download or read book Chiriqui Improvement Company Charter Grants By Laws and Organization written by Chiriqui Improvement Company and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book 1861 1865

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  • Author : United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book 1861 1865 written by United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1861 1865  By C  Percy Powell

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  • Author : United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book 1861 1865 By C Percy Powell written by United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chiriqui

Download or read book Chiriqui written by Chiriqui Improvement Company and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with Other Countries During the Years from 1809 to 1898

Download or read book Documents Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with Other Countries During the Years from 1809 to 1898 written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collected set of congressional documents of the 11th to the 55th Congress, messages of the Presidents of the United States, and correspondence of the State Dept. Many of these pamphlets have been catalogued separately under their respective headings.

Book The Economic Literature of Latin America

Download or read book The Economic Literature of Latin America written by Harvard University. Bureau for Economic Research in Latin America and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lincoln Day by Day

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  • Author : United States Lincoln Sesquincentennial Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book Lincoln Day by Day written by United States Lincoln Sesquincentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury  Transmitting a Report on the Claims of the Chiriqui Improvement Company to Territory in New Grenada

Download or read book Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting a Report on the Claims of the Chiriqui Improvement Company to Territory in New Grenada written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Freed Myself

Download or read book I Freed Myself written by David Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the many ways in which African Americans made the Civil War about ending slavery. Abraham Lincoln's primary goal was to save the Union rather than to absolve the institution of slavery, yet slaves who escaped to Union lines refused to fight for the Union while remaining enslaved, ultimately forcing Lincoln to disband the institution.

Book The Congressional Globe

Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Statement of the Property  Privileges and Prospects of the Chiriqui Improvement Company

Download or read book Statement of the Property Privileges and Prospects of the Chiriqui Improvement Company written by Chiriqui Improvement Company and published by . This book was released on 1856* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papers of Ulysses S  Grant

Download or read book The Papers of Ulysses S Grant written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: