Carbon Societies : The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels (Paperback)

Part I - Setting the agenda: biophysical resources and societal self-understandings
Chapter 1: Climate change, modernity, and capitalism


Part II - An alternative historical sociology of modernity and capitalism
Chapter 2: Logics of history
Chapter 3: The advanced organic economy of ""early modernity""
Chapter 4: Vertical frontiers and the Great Divergence
Chapter 5: Fordism and the path towards the Great Acceleration


Part III - The social logic of fossil fuels: climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration
Chapter 6: Capitalism, socialism, and democracy: the politics of material well-being
Chapter 7: Why fossil fuels? Alternatives of ""development""
Chapter 8: Enabling and constraining knowledge: frontiers, limits, boundaries
Chapter 9: Problem displacement: the social logic of fossil fuels


Part IV - The future social logic of fossil fuels
Chapter 10: Other endings: reviewing the logics of expansion
Chapter 11: What is to be done?