
Promoting an awareness and understanding of human material progress. How we got it, and how we can keep it going.
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Before oil, there was coal. By 1913, Britain exported nearly 100 million tons annually and supplied most of the world's internationally traded energy. How did one island nation become the dominant energy exporter of the industrial age?
How did China achieve extraordinary growth while remaining a centralized one-party state? The answer may surprise you.
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Railroads and coal spread globally, but only societies with strong preconditions for material progress achieved explosive industrial growth.
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Why did the Danube basin develop differently than Northwestern Europe? River geography helped shape Europe’s long east-west divide.
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European empire concentrated in ports, extraction zones, and rail corridors while most indigenous people remained in largely traditional rural societies.
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Promoting an awareness and understanding of human material progress and how to keep it going. Author of "From Poverty to Progress" book series. PhD Brown University and former professor. 20+ years in Digital Technology sector.
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