The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

by Andrew Nikiforuk

Book Overview

By the winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world's most versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553659783
• ISBN13: 9781553659785
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"