New energies : a history of energy transitions in Europe and North America / edited by Stephen G. Gross & Andrew Needham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gross, Stephen G., 1980- editor.

Needham, Andrew, 1971- editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy transition--Europe--History.

Energy transition.

Energy transition--North America--History.

Power resources--Europe--History.

Power resources.

Power resources--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a New Energy History / Stephen G. Gross and Andrew Needham

Part I. The Rise of Oil and the Transformation of Coal: Creation, Destruction, and Reinvention

1. The Oil from Our Soil: French Alcohol Fuel versus Foreign Oil, 1918-1957 / Joseph Bohling

2. The Politics of Creative Destruction: West German Hard Coal and the Postwar Oil Transition / Stephen G. Gross

3. Accounting the Dead: The Moral Economy of the Coal-Fired Social Contract / Trish Kahle

4. Hard Hat Cowboys: Energy Workers and Coalfield Capitalism in the Anthropocene / Ryan Driskell Tate

Part II. Oil Transition in Crisis: The 1970s

5. American Politics and Energy Transitions in the 1970s / Victor McFarland

6. The Decade of the "Energy Transition": A Critical Review of the Global Energy Debates of the 1970s / Duccio Basosi

7. Reversing the Transition from Coal to Oil?: The International Energy Agency and the Western Industrialized Countries' Restructuring of Energy Supply in the 1970s / Henning Türk

8. From State to Market: A Transition in the Economics of Energy Resource Conservation / Thomas Turnbull

Part III. A Stalled Transition? Nuclear Energy's Dilemmas and Possibilities

9. Nuclear Energy and the Dream of Independence: The Case of Eastern Europe / Sonja D. Schmid

10. Contamination without Representation: Fetal Citizenship and Atomic Power in the Postwar United States / Natasha Zaretsky

11. The Rise of Counterexpertise and the Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in West Germany / Dolores L. Augustine

Part IV. The Transition off Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Possibilities

12. A Future Foreseen and Transition Delayed: Big Oil and Global Warming, 1959-1986 / Benjamin Franta

13. Renewable Energies in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970s-1990s: Discourses, Contexts, and Policies / Eva Oberloskamp

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Gross, Stephen New Energies

ISBN:

9780822989882

0822989883

Publisher Number:

99993353259

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.