Jean-Claude Debeir, Jean-Paul Deléage, Daniel Hémery, Une Histoire de l'énergie. Les servitudes de la puissance (Paris : Flammarion, 2013 [1986])
The historical approach of energies consumers is based on several questions on the conceptual frameworks. In the dailylife anthropology framework, energy consumption disappears behind the use of the artefacts and becomes an infra-consumption.
Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization. A History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017)
This historiographical essay shows how historians have dealt with energy since the beginning of the 20th c. and until today.
Energy is a rich concept that can analyze much of the evolution of societies over time.