Table of contents for Children of the sun : a history of humanity's unappeasable appetite for energy / Alfred W. Crosby.

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Part I. The Largess Of The Sun
1. Fire and Cooking
2. Agriculture
3. The Columbian Exchange
Part II. Fossilized Sunshine
4. Coal and Steam
5. Oil and the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine)
6. Electricity
Part III. Energy at the Turn of the Third Millennium
7. Fission
8. Fusion
9. The Anthropocene
Bibliography
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Power resources.
Power resources -- History.
Solar energy -- History.