Bob Johnson. Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014. 264 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2004-3.
Reviewed by Thomas M. Turnbull (Leuphana Universitat, IEEE Fellow in the History of Electrical and Computing Technology) Published on H-Energy (July, 2017) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Andrew B. Arnold. Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country. Culture, Labor, History Series. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $49.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-6498-5.
Reviewed by Christian Wright Published on H-Energy (November, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Meg Jacobs. Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s. New York: Hill and Wang, 2016. 371 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-5847-1.
Reviewed by Tyler Priest (University of Iowa) Published on H-Energy (November, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Robert Lifset, ed. American Energy Policy in the 1970s. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. 332 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8061-4450-4.
Reviewed by Jeff Manuel (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Published on H-Energy (October, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
David Buchan, Malcolm Keay. Europe's Long Energy Journey: Towards an Energy Union? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-875330-8.
Reviewed by Lauren Mckee (Berea College) Published on H-Energy (October, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
James Robert Allison. Sovereignty for Survival: American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-20669-2.
Reviewed by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward (Shippensburg University) Published on H-Energy (October, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Andrew Needham. Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. Politics and Society in Modern America Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Illustrations. 336 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-13906-7; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-17354-2.
Reviewed by Ben Ford (Salem State University) Published on H-Energy (October, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Christopher F. Jones. Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 320 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-72889-9.
Reviewed by Raechel Lutz (Rutgers University) Published on H-Energy (June, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Gary Sernovitz. The Green and the Black: The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over Fracking, and the Future of Energy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. 288 pp. $27.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-250-08066-0.
Reviewed by Tyler Priest (University of Iowa) Published on H-Energy (June, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Steven A. Yetiv. Myths of the Oil Boom: American National Security in a Global Energy Market. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-021269-8.
Reviewed by Marta Musso (Cambridge) Published on H-Energy (April, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Robert D. Lifset. Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism. History of the Urban Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. 328 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6305-9.
Reviewed by William Michael Camp (Emory University) Published on H-Energy (April, 2016) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Tyler Priest. The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xi + 317 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58544-568-4.
Reviewed by Jason Theriot Published on H-Energy (July, 2010) Commissioned by Joseph A. Stromberg
Offshore or Bust
Jay E. Hakes. A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment. New York: J. Wiley, 2008. iv + 252 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-470-26763-9.
Reviewed by Joe Pratt Published on H-Energy (May, 2010) Commissioned by Joseph A. Stromberg
The Politics of U.S. Energy Policy
Justin Pemberton, dir. The Nuclear Comeback. DVD. New York: Icarus Films, 2007. 53 minutes.
Reviewed by Daniel Pope Published on H-Energy (October, 2009) Commissioned by Joseph A. Stromberg
A Nuclear Revival?
Daniel Pope. Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xix + 282 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-40253-8.
Reviewed by Julie Cohn Published on H-Energy (March, 2009) Commissioned by Joseph A. Stromberg
Lessons from a Colossal Energy Planning Failure
