History of Energy Capture

Source

* Book: Social Development. Ian Morris. Stanford University, 2010.

URL = http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~lyamane/ianmorris.pdf

Statistics

Energy Capture Throughout Human History

Chapter 8 Energy Capture

8.1 Energy capture, real wages, and GDP, GNP, and NDI per capita 28

8.2 Units of measurement and abbreviations 32

8.3 The nature of the evidence 33

8.4 Estimates of Western energy capture 35

8.4.1  The recent past, 1700-2000 CE       36     
8.4.2  Classical antiquity (500 BCE–200 CE)      39     
8.4.3  Between ancient and modern (200–1700 CE)     50       
8.4.3.1 200-700 CE          50       
8.4.3.2  700-1300 CE          53       
8.4.3.3  1300-1700 CE          55     
8.4.4  Late Ice Age hunter-gatherers (c. 14,000 BCE)     57     
8.4.5  From foragers to imperialists (14,000-500 BCE)     59     
8.4.6  Western energy capture: discussion       73  3   

8.5 Estimates of Eastern energy capture 75

8.5.1  The recent past, 1800-2000 CE       79     
8.5.2  Song dynasty China (960-1279 CE)       83     
8.5.3  Early modern China (1300-1700 CE)       85     
8.5.4  Ancient China (200 BCE-200 CE)       88     
8.5.5  Between ancient and medieval (200-1000 CE)     91     
8.5.6  Post-Ice Age hunter-gatherers (c. 14,000 BCE–9500 BCE)    94     
8.5.7  From foragers to imperialists (9500-200 BCE)      95   

8.6 Energy capture: discussion 105

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