Berlin’s modern history provides an instructive window on the evolution of energy flexibility in an urban context. Since being enlarged to its…
This collective work deals with the material transitions in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. It shows large-scale and long-term technical…
This article explores a short-lived but major natural gas boom in the area of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The discovery and exploitation of natural…
Reducing energy use is a key imperative for Western societies. However, it is hard to envision how this might come about and…
This article posits that the French conquest of Vietnam was undertook notably to appropriate its coal resources for the energy supply of the…
This paper argues that efforts to gain secure access to and control over energy resources to fuel rapidly growing economies often rely on…
The article examines the changes in the European Community (EC) research funding priorities and how they determined the character of the…
Since the discovery of oil in the Gulf, the military-industrial complex has expanded the scale and scope of capital accumulation. We argue in this…
In this special issue, we reflect on the relations between energy systems and imperialism via multiple expressions: the role of oil in…
