Energy in American History
A Political, Social, and Environmental Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
Published on 27. June 2024
Book
Hardback
900 pages
978-1-4408-7214-3 (ISBN)
Description
Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics.
Focusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America's past in order to better understand its energy future.
Focusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America's past in order to better understand its energy future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 263 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 65 mm
Weight
2284 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-7214-3 (9781440872143)
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Energy in American History
A Political, Social, and Environmental Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]
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Jeffrey B. Webb is Professor of American History at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, USA.
Christopher R. Fee is Graeff Professor of English at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
Christopher R. Fee is Graeff Professor of English at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chronology
A to Z Entries
Acid Rain
Adair, Paul Neal "Red"
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
Agriculture and Energy
Alta Wind Energy Center
American Petroleum Institute
American Radiator Company
An Inconvenient Truth
Animal Power
Aramco
Argo Merchant Oil Spill
Atomic Energy Acts
Austin Dam
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Bartlett Electric Cooperative
Battle of Blair Mountain
Bell Labs
Benedum, Michael Late
Biofuels
Black Lung Disease
Block Island Wind Farm
Boeing, William Edward
Bowser, Sylvanus Freelove
Brockovich, Erin
Brush, Charles Francis
Buffalo Chips
Bush, George H.W.
Caddo Oil Field
CAFE Standards
California Electric Light Company
Caltex
Cap and Trade System
Carrier, Willis Haviland
Carter Doctrine
Centralia Mine Disaster
Cheney, Richard Bruce "Dick"
Cherry Mine Disaster
Chicago Smoke Abatement Ordinances of 1881 and 1903
Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill
Cist, Jacob
Clean Air Act of 1970
Clean Coal
Clean Power Plan of 2015
Clean Water Act
Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion
Climate Change
Coal
Coal Gasification
Coaling Stations
Coke
Colliers
Consolidated Edison Company
Consortium Agreement of 1954
Cooke, Morris Llewellyn
Cooke-Zevada Agreement of 1942
Cooper, Peter
Corliss, George Henry
Crotched Mountain Wind Farm
Cumberland Iron and Coal Company
Dakota Access Pipeline
Davenport, Thomas
Dawson Mine Disaster
Daylight Saving Time
Deepwater Horizon
Densmore Oil Tank Car
Digital Revolution
Drake, Edwin Laurentine
Duryea, Charles and J. Frank Duryea
Dysart, Stella
Earth Day
Edison, Thomas Alva
Electricity
Enbridge Pipeline System
Energy Crisis of the 1970s
Energy Fuels, Inc.
Energy Independence
Energy Policy Act of 2005
Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975
Energy Security Act of 1980
Evans, Oliver
Evard, Mary E.A.
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
ExxonMobil
Farmington Mine Disaster
Federal Power Act of 1935
Federal Power Commission
Federal Water Power Act of 1920
Fermi, Enrico
Fesler, Milton A.
Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917
Ford, Henry
Franklin, Benjamin
Free Energy Myths
Frick, Henry Clay
Frigidaire
Fuel Cell
General Electric Company
Geothermal Power
Getty, Jean Paul
Global Climate Coalition
Gold, Stephen J.
Gulf Oil Company
Gulf War
Halladay Windmill
Halliburton Company
Harlan County War
Hart, William Aaron
Henry, Joseph
Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company
Holmes, Joseph Austin
Home Energy Efficiency
Hoover Dam
Hughes, Howard R., Sr.
Hydraulic Fracking
Hydroelectric Power
Idaho National Energy Laboratory
Indiana Natural Gas Boom
Industrial Revolution
Insull, Samuel
Interstate Highway System
Iraq War and the Project for a New American Century
Johnson, Warren Seymour
Joy, Joseph Francis
Kerr-McGee's Kermac No. 16
Keystone Pipeline System
Kier, Samuel Martin
Kingston Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
KitchenAid Appliances
Koch Brothers
Krebs Mine Disaster
Lakes, Arthur
Lithium-ion Battery
Lowell Waterpower System
Ludlow Massacre
Mandatory Oil Import Quota Program
Manhattan Project
Martin County Coal Slurry Spill
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Mellowes, Alfred W.
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
Miner's and Laborer's Benevolent Association
Mobil Oil Corporation
Molly Maguires
Monongah Mine Disaster
Morse, Samuel
Nason, Joseph
National Energy Act of 1978
Natural Gas
Natural Gas Act of 1938
Natural Resources Defense Council
Navajo Reservation Uranium Mining
New London School Explosion
New York City Blackout
New York Steam Company
North Antelope Rochelle Mine
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
Ohio Oil Boom
Oil Embargo of 1941
Oil Tankers
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Osgood, John Cleveland
Paint Creek Mine War
Panama Canal
Peak Oil
Pearl Street Station
Pennsylvania Oil Boom
Perry, Thomas Osborn
Petroleum
Pierce Steam Heating Company
Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion
Powell River Project
Powers, William Penn
Project Gasbuggy
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
Red Fork Oil Gusher
Red Line Agreement of 1928
Renewable Energy
Revelle, Roger R. D.
Richardson and Boynton Company
Richmond, Indiana Gas Explosions
Richmond Union Passenger Railway
Rockefeller, John D.
Roughnecks
Rumford Fireplace
Rural Electrification Act of 1936
Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Scofield Mine Disaster
Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane "Nellie Bly"
Seven Sisters Oil Companies
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
Shuman, Frank
Sierra Club
Sinclair, Upton and King Coal
Singer Manufacturing Company
Slater, Samuel
Smart Grid
Solar Power
Spindletop Oil Gusher
Sport Utility Vehicles
Standard Oil Company
Stanley, William Jr.
Steam Power
Steele, John Washington "Coal Oil Johnny"
Steen, Charles Augustus
Stewart, Philo Penfield
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Summerland Oil Field
Summers, Emma A. McCutchen
Surface Mining
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Susquehanna Company
Sweeney, Peter
Tarbell, Ida
Teapot Dome Scandal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tesla, Nikola
Texaco
Texas Oil Boom
Three Mile Island Accident
Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company
Tommyknockers
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
Transcontinental Railroad
Truck Transportation Technology
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Green Building Council
Underwriters Laboratories
Union of Concerned Scientists
United Mine Workers of America
United States Fuel Administration
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
Upton Machine Company and Whirlpool Corporation
Usibelli, Emil
Vulcan Street Plant
War of the Currents
Waste to Energy
Water Power
Weir, Paul
West Frankfort Mine Disaster
Westinghouse, George
Whale Oil
Whiting Refinery
Williams Oil-o-Matic
Wind Power
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
Primary Documents
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chronology
A to Z Entries
Acid Rain
Adair, Paul Neal "Red"
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
Agriculture and Energy
Alta Wind Energy Center
American Petroleum Institute
American Radiator Company
An Inconvenient Truth
Animal Power
Aramco
Argo Merchant Oil Spill
Atomic Energy Acts
Austin Dam
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Bartlett Electric Cooperative
Battle of Blair Mountain
Bell Labs
Benedum, Michael Late
Biofuels
Black Lung Disease
Block Island Wind Farm
Boeing, William Edward
Bowser, Sylvanus Freelove
Brockovich, Erin
Brush, Charles Francis
Buffalo Chips
Bush, George H.W.
Caddo Oil Field
CAFE Standards
California Electric Light Company
Caltex
Cap and Trade System
Carrier, Willis Haviland
Carter Doctrine
Centralia Mine Disaster
Cheney, Richard Bruce "Dick"
Cherry Mine Disaster
Chicago Smoke Abatement Ordinances of 1881 and 1903
Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill
Cist, Jacob
Clean Air Act of 1970
Clean Coal
Clean Power Plan of 2015
Clean Water Act
Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion
Climate Change
Coal
Coal Gasification
Coaling Stations
Coke
Colliers
Consolidated Edison Company
Consortium Agreement of 1954
Cooke, Morris Llewellyn
Cooke-Zevada Agreement of 1942
Cooper, Peter
Corliss, George Henry
Crotched Mountain Wind Farm
Cumberland Iron and Coal Company
Dakota Access Pipeline
Davenport, Thomas
Dawson Mine Disaster
Daylight Saving Time
Deepwater Horizon
Densmore Oil Tank Car
Digital Revolution
Drake, Edwin Laurentine
Duryea, Charles and J. Frank Duryea
Dysart, Stella
Earth Day
Edison, Thomas Alva
Electricity
Enbridge Pipeline System
Energy Crisis of the 1970s
Energy Fuels, Inc.
Energy Independence
Energy Policy Act of 2005
Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975
Energy Security Act of 1980
Evans, Oliver
Evard, Mary E.A.
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
ExxonMobil
Farmington Mine Disaster
Federal Power Act of 1935
Federal Power Commission
Federal Water Power Act of 1920
Fermi, Enrico
Fesler, Milton A.
Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917
Ford, Henry
Franklin, Benjamin
Free Energy Myths
Frick, Henry Clay
Frigidaire
Fuel Cell
General Electric Company
Geothermal Power
Getty, Jean Paul
Global Climate Coalition
Gold, Stephen J.
Gulf Oil Company
Gulf War
Halladay Windmill
Halliburton Company
Harlan County War
Hart, William Aaron
Henry, Joseph
Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company
Holmes, Joseph Austin
Home Energy Efficiency
Hoover Dam
Hughes, Howard R., Sr.
Hydraulic Fracking
Hydroelectric Power
Idaho National Energy Laboratory
Indiana Natural Gas Boom
Industrial Revolution
Insull, Samuel
Interstate Highway System
Iraq War and the Project for a New American Century
Johnson, Warren Seymour
Joy, Joseph Francis
Kerr-McGee's Kermac No. 16
Keystone Pipeline System
Kier, Samuel Martin
Kingston Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
KitchenAid Appliances
Koch Brothers
Krebs Mine Disaster
Lakes, Arthur
Lithium-ion Battery
Lowell Waterpower System
Ludlow Massacre
Mandatory Oil Import Quota Program
Manhattan Project
Martin County Coal Slurry Spill
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Mellowes, Alfred W.
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
Miner's and Laborer's Benevolent Association
Mobil Oil Corporation
Molly Maguires
Monongah Mine Disaster
Morse, Samuel
Nason, Joseph
National Energy Act of 1978
Natural Gas
Natural Gas Act of 1938
Natural Resources Defense Council
Navajo Reservation Uranium Mining
New London School Explosion
New York City Blackout
New York Steam Company
North Antelope Rochelle Mine
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
Ohio Oil Boom
Oil Embargo of 1941
Oil Tankers
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Osgood, John Cleveland
Paint Creek Mine War
Panama Canal
Peak Oil
Pearl Street Station
Pennsylvania Oil Boom
Perry, Thomas Osborn
Petroleum
Pierce Steam Heating Company
Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion
Powell River Project
Powers, William Penn
Project Gasbuggy
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
Red Fork Oil Gusher
Red Line Agreement of 1928
Renewable Energy
Revelle, Roger R. D.
Richardson and Boynton Company
Richmond, Indiana Gas Explosions
Richmond Union Passenger Railway
Rockefeller, John D.
Roughnecks
Rumford Fireplace
Rural Electrification Act of 1936
Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Scofield Mine Disaster
Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane "Nellie Bly"
Seven Sisters Oil Companies
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
Shuman, Frank
Sierra Club
Sinclair, Upton and King Coal
Singer Manufacturing Company
Slater, Samuel
Smart Grid
Solar Power
Spindletop Oil Gusher
Sport Utility Vehicles
Standard Oil Company
Stanley, William Jr.
Steam Power
Steele, John Washington "Coal Oil Johnny"
Steen, Charles Augustus
Stewart, Philo Penfield
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Summerland Oil Field
Summers, Emma A. McCutchen
Surface Mining
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Susquehanna Company
Sweeney, Peter
Tarbell, Ida
Teapot Dome Scandal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tesla, Nikola
Texaco
Texas Oil Boom
Three Mile Island Accident
Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company
Tommyknockers
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
Transcontinental Railroad
Truck Transportation Technology
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Green Building Council
Underwriters Laboratories
Union of Concerned Scientists
United Mine Workers of America
United States Fuel Administration
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
Upton Machine Company and Whirlpool Corporation
Usibelli, Emil
Vulcan Street Plant
War of the Currents
Waste to Energy
Water Power
Weir, Paul
West Frankfort Mine Disaster
Westinghouse, George
Whale Oil
Whiting Refinery
Williams Oil-o-Matic
Wind Power
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
Primary Documents
Contributors
Bibliography
Index