
Harvesting
The question of “peak oil” or “peak spice" has always been a proxy for a paramount existential concern: whether we control anything at all....
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Christopher Dietrich is a historian of US foreign relations at Fordham University, where he also chairs the American Studies program and the O'Connell Initiative for the Global History of Capitalism. A graduate of Grinnell College and the University of Texas at Austin, he is the author of Oil Revolution (Cambridge University Press) and the editor of Diplomacy and Capitalism (University of Pennsylvania Press).