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JEHRHE #11

Varia

Gas in the Italian Kitchen between the Belle Époque and Fascism

Andrea Giuntini

The regulation and expansion of the gas industry in nineteenth-century France and Spain: a comparative approach

María Vázquez-Fariñas

Living in the “All-Electric Alcatraz”: Fuel Poverty in 1970s British Social Housing

Between energy crisis and Cold War tensions: How an incohesive European Community saved the Siberian gas pipeline (1980-1985)

Dialogue

Reflecting on and Engaging with the Future Based on History. The “Paleo-energy” Approach

Christophe Bouneau

Energy sources

The Alexander L. Kielland disaster and its aftermath

Else M. Tungland

Kayla Marie Tungodden

Björn Lindberg

Reviews

Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Jeff Diamanti, 2021)

Yohad Zacarías S.

Climate Obstruction (Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman, Kristi M. Jylhä, 2023)

Pervasive petrocultures: histories, ideas and practices of fossil fuels — JEHRHE #10

Special issue

Pervasive petrocultures: histories, ideas and practices of fossil fuels

Pervasive petrocultures: histories, ideas and practices of fossil fuels

Kristoffer Ekberg

Susanna Lidström

Petrocultures in the making: Oil in 1920s Scandinavian newspapers

Sissel Furuseth

Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil

Nicolas Chachereau

The ubiquity of Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands as a case of banal petroculture

Oceanic irrealism. Danish petrofiction below the surface

Karl Emil Rosenbæk

The endless potentiality: A century and a half of Greek oil aspirations (and what often becomes of them)

Christos Karampatsos

Giorgos Velegrakis

Pervasive extractivism: Petroculture and sedimented histories in Sandrine Bessora’s Petroleum

Giulia Champion

“Blue-Eyed Arabs” & the Silver Snake: Alaskan petrocultures and the Trans-Alaska pipeline system

Philip A. Wight

Reviews

Gasoline Dreams (Simon Orpana, 2021)

The Wretched Atom (Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 2021)

Plateforme

Special issue

Hydrocarbons and human resources: labor, social relations and industrial culture in the history of the oil and gas industry

Hydrocarbons and human resources: histories of labor, social relations, and industrial culture in the oil and gas industry

Radouan Andrea Mounecif

Natasha Pesaran

From the Allegheny to the Irrawaddy: American oil drillers in colonial Burma

From the can to the pump: the sale of petrol in the provinces and its contestation (Côte-d’Or, 1877-1939)

Timothée Dhotel

Texas, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and White-supremacist energies: Petroleum workers and anti-Black violence in the Mid-Continent oilfields

Labour and social protection in the Romanian oil industry during the Interwar

Gheorghe Calcan

Contested sovereignties: Oil, labour and the Saharan frontier, 1956-66 

Oil pricing and the challenge of an Arab oil trans-nationalism: Abdallah al-Tariqi and Arab oil globalization

Philippe Pétriat

Resource Imperialism and Resistance: Labour, Security and Social Reproduction after Iranian Oil Nationalisation

Rowena Abdul Razak

Invisible no more: women’s work in the oil and gas industry

Love and care in 2021: Women-led community activism towards oil refining on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

Energy sources

Ground Zero : Research methodology in illuminating gas history without archives

Yannis Stoyannidis

Reviews

L’énergie des marées. Hier, aujourd’hui, demain (Ewan Sonnic [dir.], 2021)

Engaging the Atom (Kaijser, Lehtonen, Meyer, Rubio-Varas, 2021)

JEHRHE #7

Varia

The Saudi Arabia of wind: Deregulation and the rise of wind power in Texas

Sarah Stanford-McIntyre

The West German educational reactor SUR-100 and its diplomatically intended export to Latin America

Andreas Jüttemann

A healthy climate for Swiss homes: The medicalisation of indoor climate in the late 19th century

Panorama

The False Start of Solar Energy in West Africa, 1960-1987

Energy sources

Introducing a large panel dataset of economy-wide real electricity prices and estimating long-run GDP and price elasticities of electricity demand for high- and middle-income panels

Brantley Liddle

Reviews

The Smoke of London (William M. Cavert, 2016)

Cookery classes for men: A novel idea introduced by the Bristol Gas Company is a man's Household Management Class. The first of its kind in this country, (...) under the expert supervision of Miss Joan Langley, the Gas Company Demonstrator. October 15 1948. Credits: Topfoto

Special issue

Home and Hearth. Gender and Energies within the Domestic Space, 19th-21st C.

Households, gender, and energies: Issues and perspectives

Charles-François Mathis

Fabrice Virgili

Jean-Pierre Williot

Making coal sharp: Gendered consumers and users of mineral fuel in the 19th Century United States

Networks of power? Rethinking class, gender and entrepreneurship in English electrification, 1880-1924

Abigail Harrison Moore

Commercial strategies to promote domestic gas and electricity consumption, and the role of women (Lisbon, 1891-1970s)

Ana Cardoso de Matos

Electricity and the changing contours of masculinity in Los Angeles, 1900–1930

What a housewife should know: popularising electric devices in the Barcelona of the nineteen-thirties

Jordi Ferran Boleda

Relieving the housewife: Gender and the promise of geothermal district heating in Reykjavík, 1930s–1970s

The uptake of new domestic energy technology in the 1950s-1960s: how women got involved in France and the Netherlands

Mariëlle Feenstra

The breakthrough of the 21 degrees culture in Denmark. Undoing and doing gender in Danish home making after 1945

Mogens Rüdiger

Energy sources

Local perspectives of national energy projects: reconstructing the impact of post war nuclear power stations in north Wales from archival sources

"Low Angle Photograph of Black Metal Tower Satellite during Daytime", July 06, 2016. By Pixabay. CC0. Source: Pexels.

Special issue

Historicising Flexibility

Flexibilities in energy supply and demand: Legacies and lessons from the past

Peter J. Forman

Elizabeth Shove

Histories of balancing demand and supply in the UK’s gas networks, 1795 – present

Peter J. Forman

Polyflexibility in public lighting

Creating supply, creating demand: Gas and electricity in Montréal from the First World War to the Great Depression

Clarence Hatton-Proulx

Demanding demand: Political configurations of energy flexibility in Berlin, 1920-2020

Siddharth Sareen

The history of heat-as-a-service for promoting domestic demand-side flexibility: Lessons from the case of Budget Warmth

Michael J. Fell

Flexibility of real-time energy distribution: the changing practices of energy control rooms

Reviews

Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (Ruth W. Sandwell, ed., 2016)

Francesca Sanna

Le Génie civil : revue générale des industries françaises et étrangères, n°577, 1er juillet 1893. Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France

Special issue

Transitions in Energy History. History in Energy Transitions

The impossible transition? The fatality of coal in the United Kingdom

Charles-François Mathis

Black gas, blue gas, green gas: In search of gas-related transitions

Jean-Pierre Williot

The energy transition in the Swedish iron and steel sector, 1800 – 1939

Cristián Ducoing

Fredrik Olsson-Spjut

Toward histories of saving energy: Erich Walter Zimmermann and the struggle against “one-sided materialistic determinism”

Thomas Turnbull

Lost in transition. The world’s energy past, present and future at the 1981 United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy

Reconfiguring technologies by funding transitions: Priorities, policies, and the renewable energy sources in the European Community funding schemes

Stathis Arapostathis

Varia

The McKeesport Natural Gas Boom, 1919-1921

Nicholas Z. Muller

Energy sources

The World Energy Council as an archive for research on energy history

Reviews

L'Europe en transitions, Énergie, mobilité, communication, XIXe – XXe siècles (Yves Bouvier & Léonard Laborie (eds.), 2016)

An Indian soldier guarding an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company refinery in Persia, 4 September 1941. Source : IWM

Special issue

Energy imperialism? Resources, power and environment (19th-20th Cent.)

Energy imperialism? Introduction to the special issue

Guillemette Crouzet

Alternatives to energy imperialism: Energy and rising economies

Paul S. Ciccantell

“Jumped on the boat of a territorialist organization”: State and capital at the origins of oil imperialism

Francesco Petrini

Stains of Empire: accumulation by contamination in the Gulf

Michael Hennessy Picard

French energy imperialism in Vietnam and the conquest of Tonkin (1873-1885)

Building 'oil' in British India: a category, an infrastructure

Oil, dollars, and US power in the 1970s: re-viewing the connections

Transnational capital markets and development policies: the OPEC countries, the Eurocurrency markets, and the LDCs from the 1960s to the 1970s

Energy sources

Life in the oilfields: Unveiling new sources for social history of French hydrocarbon industry

Radouan Andrea Mounecif

Reviews

Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 (Anand Toprani, 2019)

© Je Suis Bien Content / Studio Canal

Special issue

Light(s) and darkness(es): Shifting historical relations

Light(s) and darkness(es): Looking back, looking forward

Stéphanie Le Gallic

Sara B. Pritchard

The organization of space and time in the quartier Mu of Malia (Crete, bronze age, 3200-1100 BC), in light of lamps

The public lantern’s interplay of light and darkness: between security-based expansions, savings-based extinguishings, and the limitations of technical innovation (Paris, Barcelona, 18th C.)

Benjamin Bothereau

Contested nightscapes: Illuminating colonial Bombay

Taming darkness: A new program for Paris cinema architecture between 1914 and 1921

Mathilde Thouron

What is French about the “French fear of darkness”? The co-production of imagined communities of light and energy

Nona Schulte-Römer

Bargaining electric power: Miners, blackouts, and the politics of illumination in the United States, 1965-1979

Dark futures: the loss of night in the contemporary city?

Epilogue. Field notes from the end of the world: Light, darkness, energy, and endscape in polar night

Sara B. Pritchard

Interpellation

A call to historicize wind and site studies

Energy sources

Condeeps. The dinosaurs of the north sea

Finn Harald Sandberg

Reviews

The Path to Sustained Growth: England’s Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution (Edward Anthony Wrigley, 2016)

Oil exploration, Diplomacy, and Security in the Early Cold War (Roberto Cantoni, 2017)

Radouan Andrea Mounecif

Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran (Katayoun Shafiee, 2018)

Clarence Hatton-Proulx

Storia ambientale dell'energia nucleare. Gli anni della contestazione [Environmental History of Nuclear Energy. The era of contestation] (Andrea Candela, 2017)

Roberto Cantoni

Les économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles (Antoine Missemer, 2017)

Antonin Pottier

© Je Suis Bien Content / Studio Canal

Special issue

For a history of energy

Introduction: Energy in history, the history of energy

Energy consumers, a boundary concept for the history of energy

From the history of sources and sectors to the history of systems and transitions: how the history of energy has been written in France and beyond

Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud

Past, present and prospective energy transitions: an invitation to historians

Peter J. G. Pearson

Varia

From the jaws of defeat: France, the United States and Middle East oil, 1940-1948

Jonathan Conlin

Dialogue

Energy utopias and dystopias: History and science fiction

Charles-François Mathis

Panorama

Energy in Brazil: a historical overview

Gildo M. Santos

Energy sources

A hitchhiker’s guide to quantitative energy studies

Reviews

Energy and Civilization. A History (Vaclav Smil, 2017)

Roberto Cantoni

Une Histoire de l'énergie. Les servitudes de la puissance (Jean-Claude Debeir, Jean-Paul Deléage, Daniel Hémery, 2013 [1986])

Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Timothy Mitchell, 2011)

Béatrice Cointe

Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries (Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima and Paul Warde, 2013)

Sylvain Di Manno

The Shock of the Anthropocene (Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 2017)

Thomas Turnbull

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