Past and present energy societies : how energy connects politics, technologies and cultures / Nina Möllers, Karin Zachmann (eds.)
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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Table of Contents:
- 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.