Introduction: Climate Politics

1. Energy and Politics Before the Carbon Age
Forests
Hydraulic Politics
Proto-Fossil China
English Coal

2. Life in the Factory
Why Britain?
Slow Steam, Rushing Water
Coal Fire Spreads

3. Carbon Democracy and Its Limits
Carbon energy and Its Democratic Promise
The Limits of Carbon Democracy
Carbon Empires
Oil Violence in Revolutionary Mexico

4. Cold War Carbon
The Cold Was and Decolonization
Energy Recovery
Oil and Democracy in the Middle East

5. The Politics of Energy Crisis
Posted Prices
Inventing and Energy Crisis
Neocolonial Carbon

Conclusion: Protest Energy