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Past and present energy societies : how energy connects politics, technologies and cultures / Karin Zachmann -- [part 1.] Cultural representations of energy. Electrifying the world : representations of energy and modern life at World's Fairs, 1893-1982 / Nina Möllers -- "We want to live electrically!" : marketing strategies of German power companies in the 20th century / Sophie Gerber -- Filming electrical consumption : EDF's promotional films (1946-2004) / Yves Bouvier -- [part 2.] Energy consumption practices. Managing energy consumption : the rental business for storage water heaters of Berlin's electricity company from the late 1920s to the early 1960s / Nina Lorkowski -- Saving energy by shifting clocks? : energy policy and the introduction of Daylight Saving Time in East and West Germany / Mathias Mutz -- Energy consumption practices and social inequality : the case of low-income households / Karl-Michael Brunner, Anja Christanell, Markus Spitzer -- [part 3.] Societal perceptions of energy resources. Cultural meanings of wood gas as automobile fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 / Helena Ekerholm -- Missing green in the Black Gold : environment in the public debate on West Siberian oil production from the 1970s to the present / Valentina Roxo -- Publics in the pipeline : on bioenergy and its imagined publics in Norway and Sweden / Tomas Moe Skjølsvod -- Patterns of energy transitions : the long-term role of energy in the economic growth of Europe / Silvana Bartoletto.

Abundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.

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