Politique

This paper traces the history of oil being reined in by the British Raj, from the 1870s to the early 20^th C. I argue that oil is not a self-evident object, but a category built by regimes of thought.

This paper presents the World Energy Council (WEC) as an archive for research on the history of energy.

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.