What is it about?
This book is an economic history of Europe viewed through the role that energy has played in that history. As such, it also aims to provide an account of the role energy can play in economic history more generally, and how energy consumption and economic development have been, are, and may be, entwined.
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Why is it important?
I may help understand the role of energy in Modern Growth.
Perspectives
The book is a step towards the understanding of the role of energy yesterday and today within modern global economy.
Professor Paolo Malanima
University Magna Graecia Catanzaro
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This page is a summary of: Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, and Paul Warde, Power to the people: energy in Europe over the last five centuries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 457. 102 figs. 89 tabs. ISBN 9780691143620 Hbk. £27.95/$39.50), The Economic History Review, October 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0289.12089_15.
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