The culture of energy /
The culture of the modern world involves a sizeable and continuous use of energy. The story of energy as a part of modernity begins in the early 19th Century with hard work, experiments and the establishment of local energy systems. The natural conditions made certain by the alternation between ligh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Mogens Rüdiger
- Gas-light in Italy between 1700 & 1800s : a history of lighting / Davide Del Curto and Angelo Landi
- De-electrifying the history of street lighting : energies in use in town and country (Portugal, 1780s-1930s) / Bruno Cordovil
- Electric light and the cityscape / Olivier Namier
- The hidden dimensions of electrical architecture / Olivier Namier
- NIS countries : culture of "energy spending" / Sergey Kizima
- Ågesta : the suburb nuclear plant : the possibilities of re-use and large-scale perservation [sic] of a radiation-contaminated power plant / Per Lundgren, Magdalena Tafvelin Heldner, Eva Dahlström Rittsél
- A tamed shrew? : images of the atomic age in Dutch popular culture, 1945-1957 / Dick van Lente
- Energy conservation in America : the case of New York / Robert Lifset
- An environmental perspective on recent energy sector development in Denmark : looking back on the last 15 years of change / Christian Friberg Nielsen
- Energy in homes : an historical approach to understanding new routines / Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
- How Danish households went electric and the construction of the modern Danish housewife / Jytte Thorndahl
- Women in rural Indian households and energy needs : struggle and solace : cultural perspective to reality / N.K. Kumaresan Raja
- The new culture of energy : how to empower energy users? / Gregoire Wallenborn
- The diffusion of central heating systems in Milan, Italy, between the 1700s-1800s / Carlo Manfredi
- Lessons drawn from the history of heating : a French perspective / Emmannuelle Gallo
- An integrated approach towards energy and aesthetics in lighting / Amardeep M. Dugar.