BOOK REVIEW: Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries

Abstract

The book presents an in-depth analysis of the root causes for Europe’s world domination in the modern era, by putting energy at the center. The book is not only a book of economic history and development which sees the main difference between pre-industrial organic economies and modern economies as the utilization of different types of energy carriers, but it is also an anthropological study about bringing ‘power to the people’.

Keywords

Energy, Europe, Economic History, Economic Development, Anthropology

Citation

KANDER, Astrid, MALANIMA, Paolo, WARDE, Paul, Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2013, 457 pages. ISBN: 978-0-961-14362-0

Affiliations

• Serhan Ünal, Research Assistant, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies