The regulation and expansion of the gas industry in nineteenth-century France and Spain: a comparative approach
This paper presents the evolution of the regulation of the gas industry in France and Spain during the 19th century.
Public policy
“Blue-Eyed Arabs” & the Silver Snake: Alaskan petrocultures and the Trans-Alaska pipeline system
Following fierce construction controversies in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System became a familiar cultural hallmark and the most iconic pipeline in the world.
The Wretched Atom (Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 2021)
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021).
The ubiquity of Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands as a case of banal petroculture
In 1995 Michael Billig introduced the term ‘banal nationalism’ to refer to those representations and reproductions of the nation which are as ubiquitous as they tend to go unnoticed.
Electricity, modernity and tradition during Irish rural electrification, 1940-1970
The arrival of widespread domestic electricity in rural Ireland was spread over two decades in the 1950s and 1960s, where the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) rolled out an electrical grid across the State.
Engaging the Atom (Kaijser, Lehtonen, Meyer, Rubio-Varas, 2021)
Arne Kaijser, Markku Lehtonen, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Mar Rubio-Varas (eds), Engaging the Atom: The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2021).
Les économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles (Antoine Missemer, 2017)
Antoine Missemer, Les économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles (1865-1931) [Economists and the End of Fossil Fuels] (Paris : Garnier, 2017)
Past, present and prospective energy transitions: an invitation to historians
This paper argues that historians and their disciplinary practices can enhance the analysis of energy transitions by non-historians.
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Timothy Mitchell, 2011)
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (London: Verso, 2011)