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<div align="center"><font size=6 color="#FF0000"><i>This seminar has been
cancelled due to illness<br><br>
</font><b>MIT Seminar on Environmental and <br>
Agricultural History<br>
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</i>John McNeill<br>
University Professor,
Georgetown University<br><br>
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<font size=4><i> “Empires of Energy, 1580-1980: <br>
Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics”<br>
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This talk considers the links between energy regimes and political power
in the international system over the past 400 years. How did the
availability and use of fossil fuels affect the affairs of nations?
In particular, how did peat, coal, and oil help the Dutch Republic, the
British Empire, and the United States in their quests for survival and
power? What might be the geopolitical implications of the next
energy regime?<br>
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</i><div align="center">Friday, May 2, 2008<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge<br>
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</b>Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing
list, please contact Margo Collett at
<a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>. </body>
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