In this special issue, we reflect on the relations between energy systems and imperialism via multiple expressions: the role of oil in…
In the wake of a recent literature in international banking and financial history focused on the role of western commercial banks in placing the…
Modern imperialism springs from the interaction of the geopolitical and economic logics. The international oil industry offers an ideal case study…
Anand Toprani’s Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2019) describes…
Petrodollars – the dollars accumulated by oil-producing countries as revenues for oil exports – are usually considered key to…
While energy use has appeared historically consequent for most of human history, it now seems energy non-use may determine our future. It…
This paper traces the history of oil being reined in by the British Raj, from the 1870s to the early 20th C. I argue that oil is not a…
After four years of preparations, in the summer of 1981 Nairobi hosted the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy. A…
Exploring the notion of an energy transition by way of specific energy calls for reconsidering the history of each energy individually, with gas…
