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Introduction: Climate background and Eem visitors
Weichselian stone age : Coping with the cold North
Late stone age : More settlements and transitions
Agriculture, trade, and metals
Migration and exploration by land and sea
Medieval society : Church building and a little dissent
Renaissance : The missed opportunities
Aftermath : Ecological disasters and counter-measures
Industrialisation and infrastructure development
Electricity : wind or coal?
Oil, nuclear (no thanks!) and natural gas
Conflicting directions : Renewable energy and decentralisation in a world of globalisation and growing consumption.
A history of energy : Northern Europe from [the] Stone Age to the present day by Bent Sørensen. ISBN 9781849713856. Published by Earthscan in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.