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
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2018.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This historiographical essay shows how historians have dealt with energy since the beginning of the 20th c. and until today. During the two first third of the 20th c., only a handful of authors have tried to give an overview of humans made use of the energy existing all around them over centuries. Historians of the last decades of the 20th centuries were interested in specific energy sources as well as in energy sectors. More recently, tendency has come back to considering energy as a whole, studying energetic systems and the transitions between them. There has been so far no consensus on the nature and the stakes involved in the past transitions.
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This historiographical essay shows how historians have dealt with energy since the beginning of the 20th c. and until today. During the two first third of the 20th c., only a handful of authors have tried to give an overview of humans made use of the energy existing all around them over centuries. Historians of the last decades of the 20th centuries were interested in specific energy sources as well as in energy sectors. More recently, tendency has come back to considering energy as a whole, studying energetic systems and the transitions between them. There has been so far no consensus on the nature and the stakes involved in the past transitions.
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