The Smoke of London (William M. Cavert, 2016)

PhD Candidate. Centre for History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS), University of Leeds

William M. Cavert, The Smoke of London. Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Bibliographic reference

William M. Cavert, The Smoke of London. Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Abstract

This essay uses The Smoke of London (2016) as a springboard to engage with four questions of general interest to energy historians. The first addresses the notion of resource scarcities; the second addresses “socio-cultural biographies” of natural resources; the third discusses embodied knowledge about natural resources; and the fourth discusses energy determinism.