Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines by Vaclav Smil

Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines

Vaclav Smil

261 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)

nonfiction economics history science informative slow-paced
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The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as a pioneer of global commerce. Missing from these accounts is a consideration of the technol...

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