As fossil fuels deplete, what happens to capitalist political economies they support? This book examines a new theory for understanding energy, social reproduction and capitalism.

Tim Di Muzio is a Lecturer in the School of History and Politics at the University of Wollongong. He has published in highly esteemed journals and is editor of The Capitalist Mode of Power (2013).

Preface / Chapter 1. Carbon Capitalism and Petro-Market Civilization / Chapter 2. The Political Economy of Petro-Market Civilization / Chapter 3. The Birth of Petro-Market Civilization in Britain / Chapter 4. The Expansion of Petro-Market Civilization in the United States / Chapter 5. Global Carbon Capitalism / Conclusion. The Post-Carbon Era and the General Crisis of Social Reproduction / Bibliography / Index