Everything we humans have ever done has depended on our ability to obtain energy, and Vaclav Smil is the world's leading historian of this process. Energy and Civilization is sure to be the early twenty-first century's most important guide to this all-important subject. -- Ian Morris, Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University; author of Why the West Rules -- For Now Smil's masterful overview explains energy's centrality in creating and sustaining civilization. Grounded in science, sensitive to cultural differences, and richly detailed, it is the definitive work on this vital subject. -- David E. Nye, author of Electrifying America and When the Lights Went Out
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Energy and Civilization, published by the MIT Press. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2013 Bill Gates wrote on his website that “there is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."
A wise, compassionate, and valuable book.—Foreign Affairs
This is a book to excite not just admiration, but also passion. It
is a literate and precise analysis of the evolution of human
societies viewed through the lens of energy.—Literary Review of
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