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To chemists Frederick Soddy and William Ostwald, anthropologist Leslie White, archeologist Joseph Tainter, historian John Perlin, systems ecologist Howard T. Odum, sociologist Frederick Cottrell, economist Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen, energy scientist Vaclav Smil and a number of others in these and other disciplines, human history, including contemporary events, is essentially about the history of how humans have exploited energy and the technologies they have used to do so.
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Hall, C.A.S. (2017). Energy in Early Human Economies. In: Energy Return on Investment. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47821-0_8
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