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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Möllers, Nina (Editor ), Zachmann, Karin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag, 2012.
Colección:Science studies.
Temas:
Energy industries.
Energy policy.
Power resources.
Energy-Generating Resources
Industries énergétiques.
Politique énergétique.
Ressources énergétiques.
energy resources.
History of engineering and technology.
Technology, engineering, agriculture.
Technology: general issues.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Energy industries
Energy policy
Power resources
history of technology.
consumption.
culture.
history.
technology.
history of the 20th century.
energy.
science.
environmental history.
sociology of technology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Past and present energy societies : how energy connects politics, technologies and cultures / Karin Zachmann
  • [pt. 1.] Cultural representations of energy. Electrifying the world : representations of energy and modern life at World's Fairs, 1893-1982 / Nina Möllers
  • "We want to live electrically!" : marketing strategies of German power companies in the 20th century / Sophie Gerber
  • Filming electrical consumption : EDF's promotional films (1946-2004) / Yves Bouvier
  • [pt. 2.] Energy consumption practices. Managing energy consumption : the rental business for storage water heaters of Berlin's electricity company from the late 1920s to the early 1960s / Nina Lorkowski
  • Saving energy by shifting clocks? : energy policy and the introduction of Daylight Saving Time in East and West Germany / Mathias Mutz
  • Energy consumption practices and social inequality : the case of low-income households / Karl-Michael Brunner, Anja Christanell, Markus Spitzer
  • [pt. 3.] Societal perceptions of energy resources. Cultural meanings of wood gas as automobile fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 / Helena Ekerholm
  • Missing green in the Black Gold : environment in the public debate on West Siberian oil production from the 1970s to the present / Valentina Roxo
  • Publics in the pipeline : on bioenergy and its imagined publics in Norway and Sweden / Tomas Moe Skjølsvod
  • Patterns of energy transitions : the long-term role of energy in the economic growth of Europe / Silvana Bartoletto.

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