Keywords:
Power resources
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Energy policy
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Energy industries
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Inhalt -- Past and Present Energy Societies. How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures -- Cultural Representations of Energy -- Electrifying the World. Representations of Energy and Modern Life at World's Fairs, 1893-1982 -- "We want to live electrically!" Marketing Strategies of German Power Companies in the 20th Century -- Filming Electrical Consumption. EDF's Promotional Films (1946-2004) -- Energy Consumption Practices -- Managing Energy Consumption. The Rental Business for Storage Water Heaters of Berlin's Electricity Company from the Late 1920s to the Early 1960s -- Saving Energy by Shifting Clocks? Energy Policy and the Introduction of Daylight Saving Time in East and West Germany -- Energy Consumption Practices and Social Inequality. The Case of Low-Income Households -- Societal Perceptions of Energy Resources -- Cultural Meanings of Wood Gas as Automobile Fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 -- Missing Green in the Black Gold. Environment in the Public Debate on West Siberian Oil Production from the 1970s to the Present -- Publics in the Pipeline. On Bioenergy and its Imagined Publics in Norway and Sweden -- Patterns of Energy Transitions. The Long-Term Role of Energy in the Economic Growth of Europe -- Authors -- Figures and Tables.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (339 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839419649
Series Statement:
Science Studies
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6695205
DDC:
333.7
Language:
English
Note:
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