Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880

Liz Conor is an ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in History at La Trobe University, Australia. Former editor of the Aboriginal History Journal, she has published extensively on colonial and modern visual and print history, including her most recent book, Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (2016).

• Chapter 01: Cotton, coal, colonialism: Re-thinking the fossil economy in the geopolitical context of British imperialism.- Chapter 02: Colonial Staples: Steam Imperialism in Britain’s Carbon Frontier of Victoria.- Chapter 03: Steam-powered but Wood-fired: Coal and Renewable Energy in Colonial Economies.- Chapter 04: Awabakal and Nikkin: Reconnecting histories of first peoples, coal and colonists.- Chapter 05: Carbon Old and New: The Australian Agricultural Company, Coal, Wood and the complexities of energy transition in New South Wales, 1825 – 1847.- Chapter 06: Cheap energy, cheap nature: Newcastle/ Awabakal coals in colonial capitalism, 1850-1880.