Past and present energy societies : how energy connects politics, technologies and cultures

Past and present energy societies how energy connects politics, technologies and cultures

Abundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection funder (funder)
Other Authors: Möllers, Nina (Editor), Zachmann, Karin, editor (editor), Möllers, Nina, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2012
Bielefeld, Germany : [2014]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Science studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
Subjects:
Power resources.
Energy policy.
Energy industries.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419807706719
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Inhalt 5 Past and Present Energy Societies 7 Electrifying the World 45 "We want to live electrically!" 79 Filming Electrical Consumption 109 Managing Energy Consumption 137 Saving Energy by Shifting Clocks? 163 Energy Consumption Practices and Social Inequality 195 Cultural Meanings of Wood Gas as Automobile Fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 223 Missing Green in the Black Gold 249 Publics in the Pipeline 277 Patterns of Energy Transitions 305 Authors 331 Figures and Tables 335

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