Prime Movers of Globalization (repost)
Vaclav Smil, "Prime Movers of Globalization"
Publisher: MIT Press | ISBN 10: 0262014432 | 2010 | PDF | 272 pages | 10.7 MB
Publisher: MIT Press | ISBN 10: 0262014432 | 2010 | PDF | 272 pages | 10.7 MB
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 technologies behind the creation of the globalized economy. What makes it possible for us to move billions of tons of raw materials and manufactured goods from continent to continent?