The Shock of the Anthropocene (Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 2017)
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene (London, New York: Verso, 2017) Translator, David Fernbach
Environment
Energy in Brazil: a historical overview
The rapid demographic growth Brazil has experienced since the installation of the First Republic (1889) was mediated by the large size of its territory and the abundance of natural resources.
Energy consumers, a boundary concept for the history of energy
The historical approach of energies consumers is based on several questions on the conceptual frameworks. In the dailylife anthropology framework, energy consumption disappears behind the use of the artefacts and becomes an infra-consumption.
From the history of sources and sectors to the history of systems and transitions: how the history of energy has been written in France and beyond
This historiographical essay shows how historians have dealt with energy since the beginning of the 20th c. and until today.