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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Papers, Addresses and Resolutions Before the American Road Congress, Richmond, Virginia, November 20-23, 1911
Author: Papers, Addresses and Resolutions Before the American Road Congress, Richmond, Virginia, November 20-23, 1911
Author: American Road Congress (1st 1911 RicPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356136209
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Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands
Author: George A. GonzalezPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137539569
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being 'hydrofracked' to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being 'processed' – thereby generating large amounts of crude. This book places the unconventional fossil fuels revolution that is taking place in North America within the context of great power politics.
Energy and Empire
Author: George A. GonzalezPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438442963
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
What set the United States on the path to developing commercial nuclear energy in the 1950s, and what led to the seeming demise of that industry in the late 1970s? Why, in spite of the depletion of fossil fuels and the obvious dangers of global warming, has the United States moved so slowly toward adopting alternatives? In Energy and Empire, George A. Gonzalez presents a clear and concise argument demonstrating that economic elites tied their advocacy of the nuclear energy option to post-1945 American foreign policy goals. At the same time, these elites opposed government support for other forms of energy, such as solar, that cannot be dominated by one nation. While researchers have blamed safety concerns and other factors as helping to arrest the expansion of domestic nuclear power plant construction, Gonzalez points to an entirely different set of motivations stemming from the loss of America's domination/control of the enrichment of nuclear fuel. Once foreign countries could enrich their own fuel, civilian nuclear power ceased to be a lever the United States could use to economically/politically dominate other nations. Instead, it became a major concern relating to nuclear weapons proliferation.
Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System
Author: George A. GonzalezPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438469810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Energy and the modern state -- The political economy of energy -- Urban sprawl in the U.S. and the creation of the Hitler regime -- Urban sprawl, the Great Depression, and the start of World War II -- U.S. economic elites, nuclear power, and solar energy -- Global oil politics -- Plutonium and U.S. foreign policy -- Conclusion: energy and the global order
Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic
Author: George A. GonzalezPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438447965
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of politics and international relations, particularly for the United States and Western Europe. In Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic, George A. Gonzalez documents how the United States—thanks to its copious reserves of oil, coal, and natural gas—was able to assume a dominant position in the world system by the 1920s. This energy/economic imbalance was an important causal factor underlying the eruption of World War II. After 1945, and in the context of the Cold War with communism, the United States used its access to both fossil fuels and nuclear power as a means to defeat the Soviet Union and its allies. Driving American foreign policy, Gonzalez argues, is a domestic system of urban sprawl based on the automobile and the energy reserves necessary to maintain it. The massive consumer demand created by urban sprawl underpins US foreign policy in the Middle East, while concerns over access to energy drive the European Union project.
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital
Author: George A. GonzalezPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 079149389X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2296
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