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16 produkter
Engaging the Atom
The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present
Av Arne Kaijser, Arne Kaijser m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
401 kr
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Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative …
Oil and Nation
A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
Inbunden, 2016
943 kr
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Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course …
Oil and Nation
A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
Häftad, 2016
314 kr
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Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course …
Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast
Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast tells the story of oilman Ralph Bramel Lloyd, a small business owner who drove the development of one of America’s largest oil fields. Lloyd invested his petroleum earnings in commercial real estate—much of it centered around automobiles and the fuel they …
Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast
Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West
Inbunden, 2018
1143 kr
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Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast tells the story of oilman Ralph Bramel Lloyd, a small business owner who drove the development of one of America's largest oil fields. Lloyd invested his petroleum earnings in commercial real estate—much of it centered around automobiles and the fuel they …
On Petrocultures
Globalization, Culture, and Energy
Av Imre Szeman
Inbunden, 2019
1143 kr
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On Petrocultures brings together key essays by Imre Szeman, a leading scholar in the field of energy humanities and a critical voice in debates about globalization and neoliberalism. Szeman's most important and influential essays, in dialogue with exciting new pieces written for the book, …
On Petrocultures
Globalization, Culture, and Energy
Av Imre Szeman
Häftad, 2019
305 kr
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On Petrocultures brings together key essays by Imre Szeman, a leading scholar in the field of energy humanities and a critical voice in debates about globalization and neoliberalism. Szeman’s most important and influential essays, in dialog with exciting new pieces written for the book, investigate …
Energy Culture
Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond
Häftad, 2019
386 kr
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Energy Culture is a provocative book about oil’s firm grip on our politics and everyday lives. It brings together essays and artwork produced in a collaborative environment to stimulate new ways of thinking and to achieve a more just and sustainable world.The original work collected in Energy …
Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change
Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis
Häftad, 2020
361 kr
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This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, …
Engaging the Atom
The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present
Av Arne Kaijser, Arne Kaijser m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1177 kr
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Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative …
American Energy Cinema
Av Robert, Lifset, Robert Lifset m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
343 kr
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Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.American Energy Cinema explores how Hollywood movies have portrayed energy from the early film era to the present. Looking at classics like Giant, Silkwood, There Will Be Blood, and Matewan, and at quirkier fare like A Is …
Saharan Winds
Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
Av Joanna Allan
Häftad, 2024
340 kr
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As climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewable energy developments are propagating injustices such as landgrabs, colonial dispossession, and environmentally destructive practices. Changing the way we imagine and understand wind will help us …
Power Shift
Keywords for a New Politics of Energy
Av Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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Power Shift
Keywords for a New Politics of Energy
Av Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel
Inbunden, 2026
639 kr
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Power Shift traces recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming. Across the globe, the need to transition to renewables has become the guiding reality of our energy present and future, despite continuing resistance …
Petroforms
Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics
Häftad, 2025
301 kr
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Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and inquiries in the energy humanities have recently taken their rightful place as necessary …
Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast
Contemporary Petrofiction from Denmark and Norway
Häftad, 2026
347 kr
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The first major study of contemporary Nordic petrofiction. Through a variety of cultural texts, including the Nordic noir mystery Smila's Sense of Snow, Rosenbaek Reetz exposes the cultural, political, and environmental tensions in which green frontier ideas must coexist with the ongoing reliance …
