Title Electrical conquest : new approaches to the history of electrification / W. Bernard Carlson, Erik M. Conway, editors.

Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]
©2023
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 Monograph Collection  TK1005 .E44 2023  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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Series Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 67.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Model for Heterogeneous Energy Transitions -- Chapter 3. Surveying the Landscape: The Oil Industry and Alternative Energy in the 1970s -- Chapter 4. We Have No Niagara": Electrifying the "Britain of the South -- Chapter 5. Formation and Transformations of the Cuban Electric Company/Unión Eléctrica, 1920s-1980s -- Chapter 6. Between Material Dependencies, Natural Commons and Politics of Electrical Transitions: The State as Networks of Power in Greece, 1940-2010 -- Chapter 7. Large-scale Renewables and Infrastructure Gatekeepers: How Local Actors Shaped the Texas Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) Initiative -- Chapter 8. Co-ops Against Castroism: USAID and the Electrification of the Global Countryside -- Chapter 9. Vehicle-to-Grid, Regulated Deregulation, and the Energy Conversion Imaginary.
Local Note Gift of Larry Principe, May 2024.
Subject(s) Electrification -- History.
Electrification -- Historiography.
Alternate Author Carlson, W. Bernard, editor.
Conway, Erik M., 1965- editor.