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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).

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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!]
        • [3] January 28 - The political economy of steam power
        • [4] February 4 - Nature's Storehouse, or, Beer and thermodynamics
        • [5] February 11 - Economics and thermodynamics
        • [6] February 18 - Guano and globalization
        • [7] February 25 - Labor power and the human motor
        • [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
        • [11] March 25 - Nuclear and renewable energies
        • [12] April 1 - Energy and the escape from history
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