The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition

Through the transfer of people, ideas, and written texts from Britain, Americans were well aware of the potentially revolutionary role of coal for the young nation’s political economy. American knowledge of British coal practices had at least two crucial implications for the timing and shape of the...

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Main Author: Jones, Christopher
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Language:English
Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2014
Subjects:
environmental knowledge
coal
resources
energy regimes
Greenland
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6557
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spelling ftdatacite:10.5282/rcc/6557 2023-05-15T16:28:18+02:00 The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition Jones, Christopher 2014 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6557 http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6557/ en eng Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany © Copyright is held by the contributing authors. environmental knowledge coal resources energy regimes Text article-journal Journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2014 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6557 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Through the transfer of people, ideas, and written texts from Britain, Americans were well aware of the potentially revolutionary role of coal for the young nation’s political economy. American knowledge of British coal practices had at least two crucial implications for the timing and shape of the nation’s first fossil fuel energy transition. This story suggests that attention to transnational contexts can help us better understand how, when, and why energy transitions occur. Text Greenland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland
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description Through the transfer of people, ideas, and written texts from Britain, Americans were well aware of the potentially revolutionary role of coal for the young nation’s political economy. American knowledge of British coal practices had at least two crucial implications for the timing and shape of the nation’s first fossil fuel energy transition. This story suggests that attention to transnational contexts can help us better understand how, when, and why energy transitions occur.
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title The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition
title_short The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition
title_full The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition
title_fullStr The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition
title_full_unstemmed The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition
title_sort british shaping of america’s first fossil fuel transition : rcc perspectives 2014, no. 5: energy (and) colonialism, energy (in)dependence: africa, europe, greenland, north america: the british shaping of america’s first fossil fuel transition
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