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| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Time Line | ix | |
| Prologue: An Epic Quest | 1 | |
| 1 | Playing with Fire: A Thousand Years of Explosives | 7 |
| 2 | Black Powder's Soul: The Quest for the Elusive Saltpeter | 25 |
| 3 | Blasting Oil and the Blasting Cap: Alfred Nobel and the Terrible Power of Nitroglycerin | 51 |
| 4 | Construction and Destruction: Dynamite and the Engineering Revolution | 71 |
| 5 | The Great Equalizer: Explosives and Social Change | 97 |
| 6 | Inventions, Patents, and Lawsuits: The Golden Age of Explosives | 121 |
| 7 | The Guano Trade: The Toil for Chilean Saltpeter and the War of the Pacific | 143 |
| 8 | The Profits of Dynamite: A Gift to Science and Civilization | 165 |
| 9 | Battle of the Falklands: The Struggle for the Global Nitrate Supply | 185 |
| 10 | The Father of the War: Fritz Haber's World-Changing Discovery | 207 |
| Epilogue: War and the Green Revolution | 233 | |
| A Note on Sources and Further Reading | 241 | |
| Bibliography | 251 | |
| Index | 259 |
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