Cara New Daggett, who teaches #PoliticalScience at #VirginiaTechUniversity (Virginia, USA), has written a noted #book on the #history of #FossilFuels & their #links to the #emergence of #IndustrialLabor, #capitalism , & #colonial expansion (The Birth of Energy. Fossil Fuels, #Thermodynamics , and the Politics of Work, #DukeUniversityPress 2019, not translated).