Hydrocarbon Nation : How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us /

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"In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions--industrial, agricultural, transportation, and electrification--drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the young country into a nation with unparalleled economic and military pot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hogan, Thor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Government policy.
Hydrocarbons.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > Organic.
Hydrocarbures > États-Unis > Histoire.
Petrole > Industrie et commerce > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Hydrocarbons > United States > History.
Petroleum industry and trade > Government policy > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Steam, national security, and the first political age
  • Coal, macroeconomic security, and the second political age
  • Oil, microeconomic security, and the third political age
  • Energy insecurity and the American decline
  • Gas and national renewal in the fourth political age
  • Climate security and a sustainability revolution
  • Epilogue: Napatree point.

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