The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security. Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with

The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that

From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Emp