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2 Series Title Series Title New Russian Thought The publication of this series was made possible with the support of the Zimin Foundation Vladimir Bibikhin, The Woods Alexander Etkind, Nature’s Evil Boris Kolonitskii, Comrade Kerensky Sergei Medvedev, The Return of the Russian Leviathan Maxim Trudolyubov, The Tragedy of Property
3 Title Page NATURE’S EVIL A Cultural History of Natural Resources Alexander Etkind Translated by Sara Jolly polity
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5 Acknowledgements
6 Introduction Notes
7 Part 1 History of Matter Note
8 1 Cry Fire Not slash, but burn Roman fires Ships Deforestation of Europe Notes
9 2 Grain’s Way The bog civilisation The grain hypothesis Crop rotation Improvements and indolence Supplying the capitals War and potatoes Space and power Notes
10 3 The Remains of Foreign Bodies Meat Vegetarianism Fish Fur Squirrel Sable Beaver The sea otter Notes
11 4 Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice Salt Sugar Islands in the ocean Aftertaste Opium Colonies and calories Notes
12 5 Fibres Silk Hemp and flax Hemp and the Oprichnina Hemp and Napoleon Wool and the Mesta Leviathan in sheep’s clothing Cotton Proto-industry The birth of the proletariat Uzbek cotton, Russian textiles Notes
13 6 Metals Bronze Iron Fugger Luther America Alchemy Cameralism The Demidovs Notes
14 Part 2 History of Ideas Notes
15 7 Resources and Commodities Natura vastata The light, the rare and the dry Sweet refinement Mono-resource as an economic platform The gold standard Notes
16 8 Resource Projects Robinson Crusoe on the British Isles Darien The regent and coffee John Law Cantillon Notes
17 9 Labour and the Mercantile Pump The benefit of colonies Two monopolies Undivided labour A live monster Two pumps Notes
18 10 The Resources that Failed Anti-imperial France Post-colonial America Malthus Jevons Keynes Notes
19 Part 3 History of Energy
20 11 Peat Notes
21 12 Coal Water power Ghost acres Strikes The Mitchell thesis Notes
22 13 Oil Fountains and pipes Farflung corners The blood of nations The petrostate The science of curses Carbon and gender The oil standard The Russian disease The carbon standard Oil into food Destroying society Notes
23 Conclusion: Leviathan or Gaia The Gaia hypothesis The parasitic state Progress and the katechon Four justices Notes
24 References and Bibliography
25 Index
26 End User License Agreement
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