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Course description for the American Anthropocene
The climate crisis is no longer a prediction about the future, but an experience of the present. It also has a past, and in order to imagine what will come next we need to understand how we got here. While primarily concerned with the U.S. in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—the era of petro-intensive growth in the country that consumes 30% of the earth’s resources for 5% of its population--our inquiry will require explicit reflection on the longer historical roots of energy use and the global framework of resource extraction.
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In the Library's collections
You can use one of these subject headings to start your research in the library's online catalog:
Introductory reading(s)
American energy: the politics of 21st century policy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781452205373There are rapid, and sometimes radical, changes now transforming energy production and consumption in the United States. Utilizing contemporary examples throughout his narrative, Rosenbaum captures this transformation while analyzing how important actors, institutions, and issues impact American energy policy making. ...
Energy, the modern state, and the American world system by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781438469812In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching something of a crescendo with the global hegemony of Pax Americana in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He presents a clear and concise case for viewing the modern state as the collaborative and affirmative union of capitalism and political authority in a setting where energy resources, be it wind, coal, or oil, provide the basis for the relatively inexpensive projection of political power. ...
Energy follies: missteps, fiascos, and successes of America's energy policy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781108539388Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America's Energy Policy explores how a century of energy policies, rather than solving our energy problems, often made them worse; how Congress and other federal agencies grappled with remedying seemingly myopic past decisions. Sam Kalen and Robert R. Nordhaus investigate how misguided or naïve energy policy decisions caused or contributed to past energy crises, and how it took years to unwind their effects. ...
Oil and ideology: the cultural creation of the American petroleum industry by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9565 .O6473 2000ISBN: 9780807848357Traditional accounts of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, as well as recent best-selling books on the subject, still accept without question charges of unethical and anti-competitive behavior by the American oil industry. In this path-breaking synthesis of cultural, business, gender, and intellectual history, Roger and Diana Davids Olien explore how this negative image of the petroleum industry was created--and how this image in turn helped shape policy toward the industry in ways that were sometimes at odds with both the goals of reformers and the public interest. ...
Routes of power: energy and modern America by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9502 .U52 J658 2014ISBN: 9780674728899The fossil fuel revolution is usually rendered as a tale of historic advances in energy production. In this perspective-changing account, Christopher F. Jones instead tells a story of advances in energy access--canals, pipelines, and wires that delivered power in unprecedented quantities to cities and factories at a great distance from production sites. He shows that in the American mid-Atlantic region between 1820 and 1930, the construction of elaborate transportation networks for coal, oil, and electricity unlocked remarkable urban and industrial growth along the eastern seaboard. ...
U. S. energy policy and the pursuit of failure by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781107005174US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure is an analytic history of American energy policy. For the past forty years, the US government has tried to develop comprehensive policies on energy, yet these efforts have failed repeatedly. These failures have not resulted from a lack of will or funds but rather from an inability to differentiate between what could be undertaken and what could actually be accomplished. ...
Selected book title(s)
Before the lights go out: conquering the energy crisis before it conquers us by Call Number: Library Depository TJ 807.9 .U6 K64 2012ISBN: 9780470876251What you need to know now about America's energy future "Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety--if the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth-Baker--science editor at the award-winning blog BoingBoing.net--finally makes some sense out of the madness. ...
The environment: opinions throughout history by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781682179536This volume follows shifting public opinion on the environment. Historian at-large Micah Issitt traces the path of how Americans think about the environment, with each chapter providing insightful commentary on a selected primary source. ...
Market madness: a century of oil panics, crises, and crashed by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9560.5 .C5675 2015ISBN: 9780199990054Stock market booms are cause for celebration. But when oil prices soar because supplies are failing to keep up with demand, the response is nearly always apocalyptic. Predictions of the end of oil can create anxiety on Wall Street and in Washington, stoking fears that production has hit a ceiling and prices will rise in perpetuity. Yet these dire visions have always proven wrong. Market Madness is the story of four waves of American anxiety over the last 100 years about a looming end to oil reserves. ...
U. S. energy production and consumption: major factors, influences, and trends by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781634821827Federal energy policy since the 1970s has focused primarily on ensuring a secure supply of energy while protecting the environment. The federal government supports and intervenes in U.S. energy production and consumption in various ways, such as providing tax incentives, grants, and other support to promote domestic production of energy, as well as setting standards and requirements. This book provides information on U.S. production and consumption of fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy from 2000 through 2013 and major factors, including federal activities, that influenced energy production and consumption levels. ...
When they hid the fire: a history of electricity and invisible energy in America by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780822964254When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. ...
Other library resource(s)
Energy resources and use from the Oxford Bibliographies Online by ISBN: 9780199874002Human societies have depended on access to readily available supplies of fuel and other energy resources since the earliest civilizations, because people need energy to conduct work and to survive. This dependence has been an important factor in the location of communities. The earliest sources of energy were animal and human muscle power, including slaves, and various forms of biomass, solar, and wind power. ...
Energy security from Oxford Bibliographies Online - ENVS by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199363445Energy security is a multidisciplinary field which overlaps with engineering and energy systems analysis, earth sciences, economics, technology studies, political science, international relations, and security and military studies. Though discussions of energy security have been around for most of the 20th century, a systematic “energy security science” has emerged only recently and is still a young and dynamic field. The structure and the borders of the area are widely debated and contested. ...
Gale in context: Environmental studies: Energy by Call Number: Electronic resourceEnergy, in physics, is defined as the ability to do work, where work means moving or displacing something over a distance by applying force. Bicycle pedaling that translates muscle strength into the forward motion of the bicycle, flowing water that turns the shaft of a water wheel, and the electric force that moves electrons through a wire in an electric circuit are all examples of work. Energy can be transferred from one object to another. For example, energy is transferred from the person pedaling to the bicycle and from the flowing water to the wheel. In a gasoline-powered vehicle, the energy released from the explosive combustion of fuel in the engine is transferred to a drive shaft to turn the wheels, and cooking a meal involves transferring heat from a stove to the food. ...- Gale in context: Environmental studies: Environmental policy by Call Number: Electronic resourceAn environmental policy can be strictly defined as a government's chosen course of action or plan to address issues such as pollution, wildlife protection, land use, energy production and use, waste generation, and waste disposal. However, the way a particular government handles environmental problems is most often not a result of a conscious choice from a set of alternatives. ...
- Geographies of energy from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002The past decade has seen an explosion of geographical work around energy. Taking energy research outside the exclusive domain of the technological, these “energy geographies” are unpacking the social, cultural, and political dimensions of energy production and consumption, and the ways by which space, place, landscape, and territory co-constitute such energy processes. While this work strides across human and physical geography, it is within human geography where most of the work is being carried out. This emerging scholarship responds to—and is framed by—key contemporary debates, including climate change, a drive to move toward a low carbon economy, issues of resource constraints and security, and the rise of non-conventional fossil fuels. ...
- The key role of energy in economic growth from Oxford Bibliographies Online - ENVS by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199363445Most articles on energy and economics focus on aspects such as the price of petroleum, the cost of electric power, or the demand for domestic air conditioning or industrial heat. Those topics are about the factors driving producers to invest in different sources of supply, and the factors affecting demand. Instead, this article is about how energy acts as a crucial factor of production and as a driver of, or barrier to, economic growth. It also explains how it happens that conventional economic theory neglects the role of energy, and discusses the implications of that neglect in terms of explaining past economic developments and forecasting the future. ...
Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)
Articles on environmental policy and history can be found in a variety of publications. You can use a subject specific article index or use the search box at the top of the page. Examples of relevant indexes and journal titles follow.
Energy policy by Call Number: Electronic journalEnergy Policy is an international peer-reviewed journal addressing the policy implications of energy supply and use from their economic, social, planning and environmental aspects.
Environmental science index by Call Number: Electronic resourceThis resource provides in-depth A&I coverage from the environmental science literature and related disciplines. Abstracts and citations are drawn from thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade titles, conference proceedings, dissertations, and other varied content types.
Hein online law journal libraryCall Number: Electronic resourceThis is a full text searchable database of legal periodicals.
Web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Internet resource(s)
- The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy & Society
The mission of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth is to advance an affordable, sustainable, and reliable energy future for the benefit of society. They seek to achieve this mission by developing the next generation of energy experts, leaders, and citizens and by transforming humankind's understanding of energy systems across technological, environmental, economic, geopolitical, and cultural perspectives. ... - U.S. Department of Energy
The mission of the Energy Department is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. ...
Citing and Tracking Your Bibliographic References
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