The World Energy Council as an archive for research on energy history
This paper presents the World Energy Council (WEC) as an archive for research on the history of energy.
Politics
Bargaining electric power: Miners, blackouts, and the politics of illumination in the United States, 1965-1979
This article examines how the perils conjured by blackouts in American cities after 1965 became interpreted as a key point of political and bargaining leverage for the nation’s coal miners.
Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran (Katayoun Shafiee, 2018)
Katayoun Shafiee, Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018).
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Timothy Mitchell, 2011)
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (London: Verso, 2011)