La réglementation et l’expansion de l’industrie du gaz en France et en Espagne au 19e siècle: une approche comparative
Cet article présente l’évolution de la réglementation de l’industrie du gaz en France et en Espagne au 19e siècle.
Territoire
Oceanic irrealism. Danish petrofiction below the surface
This article ventures seaward to examine how two contemporary Danish novels paradoxically uses irrealist features to make visible the existent opacity and mythology of oil.
Pervasive extractivism: Petroculture and sedimented histories in Sandrine Bessora’s Petroleum
Cet article a deux objectifs. Premièrement, il considère comment le roman de Sandrine Bessora, Petroleum (2004), utilise l’intertexte du mythe de Médée, s’inscrivant ainsi dans une tradition littéraire spécifique, pour explorer la manière dont l’histoire est écrite.
The endless potentiality: A century and a half of Greek oil aspirations (and what often becomes of them)
This article focuses on select instances of the history of Greek petroleum geology, spanning over 150 years of -mostly failed- oil exploration attempts.
Love and care in 2021: Women-led community activism towards oil refining on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
From 1966 to 2012, oil companies operated a massive refinery on the Island of St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (USVI).
Ground Zero : Research methodology in illuminating gas history without archives
Cet article souhaite aborder quelques enjeux méthodologiques de la recherche historique sur le passé industriel de l’éclairage au gaz et ses sources.
Documentary Sources on Hydrocarbon Exploitation in Franco’s Spain: The ENCASO Archives
The Empresa Nacional Calvo Sotelo de Combustibles Líquidos y Lubricantes (ENCASO) was a company created in 1942 within Spain’s National Institute of Industry (INI) by Minister Juan Antonio Suanzes, in an effort to control the country’s strategic energy sector.
The Saudi Arabia of wind: Deregulation and the rise of wind power in Texas
Cet article retrace l’histoire de l’essor de l’industrie éolienne au Texas à travers l’étude de la construction du parc de Roscoe en 2010, dans l’ouest de cet Etat des Etats-Unis.
Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (Ruth W. Sandwell, ed., 2016)
Ruth W. Sandwell (ed.), Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).
Local perspectives of national energy projects: reconstructing the impact of post war nuclear power stations in north Wales from archival sources
While national energy infrastructure projects possess significant reach and scale in supply terms, they are focused on a smaller number of power generation sites and have a significant impact on those specific localities. Britain’s post war nuclear power programme was no different.