Presents a comprehensive statistical survey of global and regional energy trends since early industrialization, primarily based on 19th- and 20th-century records from various European and Western Hemisphere sources. This work also traces trends from before the 1980s in global, regional and national energy histories.

Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies? This book answers this question by tracing the history of energy and conflict from antiquity, through the epic hot and cold wars.