Energy and power : Germany in the age of oil, atoms, and climate change / Stephen G. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Stephen G., 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy policy--Germany--History--20th century.

Energy policy.

Renewable energy sources--Germany--History--20th century.

Renewable energy sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

In Energy and Power, Stephen G. Gross offers the first comprehensive history of German energy and climate policy from World War II to the present. He shows how debates over energy profoundly shaped the course of German history and influenced the landmark developments that define modern Europe. Moving beyond conventional economic theory, this book gives a novel explanation for why energy transitions happen. Further, it provides a powerful lens to move beyond conventional debates on Germany's East-West divide, or its postwar engagement with the Holocaust, to explore how this nation has shaped the contemporary world in other important ways.

Contents:

Energy price wars and the battle for the social market economy : the 1950s

The coupling paradigm : conceptualizing West Germany's first postwar energy transition

Chains of oil, 1956-

The entrepreneurial state : the nuclear transition of the 1950s and 1960s

Shaking the energy paradigm : the 1973 oil shock and its aftermath

Green energy and the remaking of West German politics in the 1970s

Reinventing energy economics after the oil shock : the rise of ecological modernization

Energetic hopes in the face of chernobyl and climate change : The 1980s

The energy entanglement of Germany and Russia : natural gas, 1970-

Unleashing green energy in an era of neoliberalism : the 1990s

Coda : German energy in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Gross, Stephen G. Energy and Power

ISBN:

9780197667736

9780197667743

OCLC:

1372498891