week 8: Energy – lecture handout [pdf] / figures [pdf]
Primary reading
* Allen, RC (2009), The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge: CUP [chapter 4]
* Allen, RC (2014), Technology, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 1 1700-1870, Cambridge: CUP (pp292-320)
Crafts, N (2003), Steam as General Purpose Technology: A growth accounting perspective, LSE Working Paper No. 75/03, May
Crafts, N (2010), Explaining the first industrial revolution: Two views, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, CAGE Online Working Paper Series, No. 10, July
Mokyr, J (2014), An Age of Progress, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 1 1700-1870, Cambridge: CUP (pp264-291)
Hydrocarbon use
BP (2018), BP Energy outlook 2018, BP plc
British Antarctic Survey (2010), Ice cores and climate change, BAS, September
Lambert, JG et al (2013), EROI of Global Energy Resources – Status, Trends and Social Implications, DfID, October [pdf]
Ritchie, R and Roser, M (2018), CO? and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Our World in Data, October
Watts, J (2018), We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN, The Guardian, Oct 8th
xkcd (2016), a timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age glaciation
– a helpful visualisation of the extent of change in our lifetimes
Watch
OSF Productions (2002a), Industrial Revelations – S01 E01 – Boom time, Discovery Networks Europe
OSF Productions (2002b), Industrial Revelations – S01 E05 – Working iron, Discovery Networks Europe
Background material
Booth, A (2009), Coal Mining, Geevor Tin Musueum
Brynjolfsson, E and McAfee, A (2014) The second machine age, London: WW Norton and Co. [pdf of chapter 1]
Carrington, D (2015), World’s climate about to enter ‘uncharted territory’ as it passes 1C of warming, The Guardian, Nov 9th
Chakrabortty, A (2014), India’s urban youth are angry. Unlike their parents, they have little to lose, The Guardian, Nov 25th
Johnson, V et al (2012), The economics of oil dependence: A glass ceiling to recovery, New Economics Foundation, November
Oxley Conservation (2012), Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings – Open fires, chimneys and flues, English Heritage
Alex Steffen’s promo for his books, such as Carbon Zero [and the 2019 tweet on historic emissions levels ]
Watts, J (2017), Global atmospheric CO2 levels hit record high, The Guardian, Oct 30th
Wrigley, E A (2013), Energy and the English Industrial Revolution, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 371, pp1-10