Table of Contents for Energy's History

List of Contributors

Introduction: Toward a Global Canon

Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull

1."The Largest and Most Important Renewable Energy Project in the World": Maurilio Biagi Filho and the Brazilian Sugar Ethanol Industry

Jennifer Eaglin

2."Coal Will Be the Primary Fuel of the Future": Yoshimura Manji on the "Fuel Question"

Victor Seow

3.The Fear of Being "Left Behind in the Dust": The Rise and Potential Fall of Coal in China

Shellen X. Wu

4.Frederick Tryon and the Decoupling of Energy and Economic Growth in the 1920s

Antoine Missemer

5.The Colony and the World Energy Revolution: Meghnad Saha's Energetic Developmentalism

Elizabeth Chatterjee

6.The Red Thread to Socialism: Gleb M. Krzhizhanovskii's "Energetics and Socialist Reconstruction"

Daniela Russ

7.Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo and the Invention of Anticolonial Democratic Oil Conservation

Michael Dobson and Giuliano Garavini

8.Privatizing a Colonial Electricity Undertaking: F. W. Dove's "What People Think of Our Electric Light"

Damilola Adebayo

9.Gender, Food, and Vernacular Energy in Moussa Travélé's "Three Rapid People"

Laura Ann Twagira

10.Uncertain Energy Epistemologies: William James and the Case of Mental and Moral Energy

Rebecca Wright

11.Laura Nader's Third-Wave Energy Anthropology

Thomas Turnbull

12.The Master Resource: Energy, Inter-Planetary Capitalism, and Neoliberal Cornucopianism

Troy Vettese

Conclusion: Pluralistic Energy History in a Contested Epoch

Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index