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  6. [8] March 4 - Petroleum and geopolitics the first time around: Baku, Ploiești, Galicia

    [8] March 4 - Petroleum and geopolitics the first time around: Baku, Ploiești, Galicia

    • [8] March 4 - Petroleum and geopolitics the first time around: Baku, Ploiești, Galicia

      [8] March 4 - Petroleum and geopolitics the first time around: Baku, Ploiești, Galicia

      Presentation:  Alperen

      Discussion leader: Sunny

      Assigned reading:

      Alison Frank Johnson, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), 75-108.

      Timothy Mitchell, "Machines of democracy," Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011), 12-42.

      Suggested reading:

      Maurice Pearton, Oil and the Romanian State (1971), 1-69.

      J. Craig et al., eds., History of the European Oil and Gas Industry (2018).

      Brian Black, Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (2012).

      Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991), 114-149.

      F. H. Trevithick, A Sketchy Report on the Petroleum Industry at Baku (1886).

      Hellmuth Wolff, Die Russische Naphtha-Industrie und der Deutsche Petroleummarkt (1902).

      J. D. Henry, Baku: An Eventful History (1905).

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      • [1] January 14 - "The sole agent in nature": The meanings of ενέργεια
      • [2] January 21 - Intermediate Scales: From the Little Ice Age to Krakatau [ONLINE ONLY!]
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      • [8] March 4 - Petroleum and geopolitics the first time around: Baku, Ploiești, Galicia
      • [9] March 11 - The expanding scale of electrical networks
      • [10] March 18 - Energetics, the biosphere, and the scope of human activity
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