Chapter One: Introduction 1.1. Things Ignited 1.2. This Book 1.3. Historicising the Capitalocene, Energy, and Technology: To Study All History Anew 1.4.
Historical Materialism and Global Warming 1.5. Outline of the Book Part I: The Frustrated Empire Chapter Two: The Industrial Revolution That Never Happened (1820s-30s) 2.1. Ox Power, Man Power, Horse Power 2.2. 1820s: "Have You Been Able to Procure Coal? Have You Bored at All?" 2.3.
Wind, Water, and Trees 2.4. Conclusion Chapter Three: The Power Crisis (1838 - 48)33 3.1. In Syria's Coal Mines, "Preoccupied with his Industrial Thoughts" 3.2. The Squeeze, and the Fightback 3.3.
The Plague and the Chiflik 3.4. The Birth of the Private Estates/Cattle Murrain Combination 3.5. Murrain/Steam Technology Combination 3.6. Conclusion: "Coal! Coal! Coal! That Is the One Thing Needful For Me" Chapter Four: The Sugar Factory, the Cornish Pump, the Mud Machine (1848 - 55) 4.1.
What Pashmuhandis Eyth Did Not See 4.2. Early 1850s: Steam for White Sugar 4.3. Early 1850s: The Mud Machine, the Cornish Pump 4.4. Conclusion Chapter Five: The "Want of Capital". The Cotton Gin (1855-63) 5.
1. Pre-boom Gins 5.2. The Cotton Boom."the Want of Capital" 5.3. Conclusion: Steam Technology and Loans Part II: Combustible Carbon Chapter Six: The Age of Debt, Steam Engines, and Bankruptcy (1863 - 76) 6.1.
Loans as Bridges 6.2. Luxemburg's Second Argument: International Loans and the Accumulation of Capital 6.3. Globalised Fossil Capital and Cash-Crops Production Chapter Seven: "The Year of the Terrible Murrain among the Cattle", the Year of the Steam Cultivator (1863) 7.1. The Rinderpest 7.2.
The Invention of the Steam Cultivator 7.3. "A Country Predestined for the Steam Plough" 7.4. Conclusion Chapter Eight: The (Re)organisation of Power (1863-70) 8.1. Steam Monopoly 8.2.
The Pasha, the Prince, and the Pashmuhandis 8.3. The Gin, the Plough, and the Pump 8.4. Conclusion: The Reorganisation of Power Chapter Nine: The Chopping Axe Spring of Qau (1865) 9.1. The Murrain, the Discontent, and the Messiah 9.2.
March 1865: The Qau Uprising 9.3. The Chopping Axe 9.4. Death and Vultures 9.5. The Prisoners, the Exiled 9.6.
Conclusion Chapter Ten: "Combustible Material of Every Kind" 10.1. The Viceroy at the Royal Agricultural Exhibition 10.2. The Lokombeel 10.3. The Forest, the Bagasse, the Soil 10.4.
The Head-Schemioth Steam Engine 10.5. Burning Combustible Material of All Kinds 10.6. Burning More Coal, Always 10.7. Conclusion: How it Burned A Fable: Capitalism and its 'Afarit Chapter Eleven: Don't You See, Pashmuhandis, That We Are Drowning? 11.1.
'Afarit, Industrialisation, Colonialism, and Global Trade 11.2. It Burns, it Explodes, it Flies, it Eats the Young 11.3. "A Devil is in Your Pump and Will Drown Us All" Conclusion Igniting the Steam Engine in Egypt Three Peculiarities: The Contingencies of Egypt's Energy Transition Do You Not See That We Keep Drowning?.