Domestic Storage Problems and Transitions: Coal in Nineteenth-Century America
Sean Patrick Adams explores coal storage and expansion in nineteenth-century America.
Sean Patrick Adams explores coal storage and expansion in nineteenth-century America.
Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
Dolata brings to light how the conflicts faced by women has shaped their agency in energy transitions.
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.
This article focuses on the complicated interactions between climate change and the lives of people in and near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Franz-Josef Brüggemeier outlines the history one of the most crucial energy source of twentieth-century Europe in this article. “Coal returned to center stage again and again. In both world wars, coal provided the material basis for the atrocities committed and was of decisive importance in the subsequent search for lasting peace.”
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira argues that the study of such transitions itself has gone through changes over the course of history.