<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003366" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 23px; "><b><i></i></b></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003366" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="6"><b><i><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental and<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b><i>Agricultural History<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 116, 21); font-size: 29px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; ">John McNeill</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.05in; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(255, 116, 21); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; ">University Professor, Georgetown University</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(255, 116, 21); "><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 29px; line-height: normal; "><span> </span>“Empires of Energy, 1580-1980:<span> </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.55in; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b><i><span> </span>Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics”<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.55in; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b><i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-size: 16px; ">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?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b>Friday, May 8, 2009<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b>2:30 to 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b>Building E51 Room 095<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b>Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">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>. </span></b></span></p></i></b></font><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>