Energy and Society (winter 2022)
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Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021).
Cara New Daggett, The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (2019).
Richard Rhodes, Energy: A Human History (2018).
M. Norton Wise, Aesthetics, Industry & Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society (2018).
David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (2004).
Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, Paul Warde, eds., Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries (2013).
John R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (2000).
Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization: A History (2017) [updating his Energy in World History (1993)].
Crosbie Smith, The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain (1998).
Bruce Clarke, Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (2001). (excerpt)Cutler J. Cleveland, ed., Encyclopedia of Energy (2004). [TJ163.28.E53]
Raymund Sosiński, Z dziejów energetyki (1964).
James Rodger Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (1998).
Bruce J. Hunt, Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein (2010).
David E. Nye, "Consumption of energy," in Frank Trentmann, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (2012).