Outsourcing
Energy and Empire in the Age of Coal, 1820–1911
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8968063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | On Barak (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 425-445 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743815000483 |
| OpenAlex | W2194891070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 49 |
During the long 19th century, British coal proliferated throughout the Ottoman Empire in increasing quantity, rapidity, and regularity via junctions and political arrangements that became evermore stable and dominant. The British used coal export to project their power elsewhere, offshoring the Industrial Revolution by building an infrastructure that could support it overseas and connect it to existing facets of the imperial project. Examining this “outsourcing” and the importance of foreign coal markets to industrialization helps provincialize the steam engine and anchor it in a global context. It also allows us to explore the impact of fossil energy on the Middle East and the ways coal both set the stage for the arrival of oil and informed the possibilities for translating carbon power into politics. Coal, the article suggests, animated political participation in England while reinforcing authoritarian tendencies in the Middle East
Archaeology · Authoritarianism · Coal · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · Fossil fuel · Industrialisation · Market economy · Middle East · Offshoring · Outsourcing · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Waste management · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
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Extractive apprehensiveness
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Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition
Energy in South Asian history
New Perspectives on Energy
Why are we in an energy crisis
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The infrastructural power of the military
The Struggle for Market Power
Flagships of Imperialism
Energy Transitions
The Great Divergence
Making of the English Working Class
Machines as the Measure of Men
The Great Divergence
Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference
On Time
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East
The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800-1914
Modern Greece. A history since 1821
The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy
The Sultan’s Yemen
Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890-1920
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Channelling Mobilities
Empire and the Hajj
Provincializing Europe
Unleashing the Beast
Open-Door Treaties
Carbon Democracy
The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800-1914
Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East
The Struggle for Market Power
The Ascendancy of the Sailing Ship 1850-85
Britain's Imperial Role in the Red Sea Area, 1800-1878
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895-1937
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |