Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a New Energy History | Stephen G. Gross and Andrew Needham
Part I. The Rise of Oil and the Transformation of Coal: Creation, Destruction, and Reinvention
1. The Oil from Our Soil: French Alcohol Fuel versus Foreign Oil, 1918–1957 | Joseph Bohling
2. The Politics of Creative Destruction: West German Hard Coal and the Postwar Oil Transition | Stephen G. Gross
3. Accounting the Dead: The Moral Economy of the Coal-Fired Social Contract | Trish Kahle
4. Hard Hat Cowboys: Energy Workers and Coalfield Capitalism in the Anthropocene | Ryan Driskell Tate
Part II. Oil Transition in Crisis: The 1970s
5. American Politics and Energy Transitions in the 1970s | Victor McFarland
6. The Decade of the “Energy Transition”: A Critical Review of the Global Energy Debates of the 1970s | Duccio Basosi
7. Reversing the Transition from Coal to Oil?: The International Energy Agency and the Western Industrialized Countries’ Restructuring of Energy Supply in the 1970s | Henning Türk
8. From State to Market: A Transition in the Economics of Energy Resource Conservation | Thomas Turnbull
Part III. A Stalled Transition? Nuclear Energy’s Dilemmas and Possibilities
9. Nuclear Energy and the Dream of Independence: The Case of Eastern Europe | Sonja D. Schmid
10. Contamination without Representation: Fetal Citizenship and Atomic Power in the Postwar United States | Natasha Zaretsky
11. The Rise of Counterexpertise and the Anti–Nuclear Power Movement in West Germany | Dolores L. Augustine
Part IV. The Transition off Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Possibilities
12. A Future Foreseen and Transition Delayed: Big Oil and Global Warming, 1959–1986 | Benjamin Franta
13. Renewable Energies in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970s–1990s: Discourses, Contexts, and Policies | Eva Oberloskamp
Notes
Contributors
Index