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Oram R (2013) Arrested Development? Energy Crises, Fuel Supplies, and the Slow March to Modernity in Scotland, 1450-1850. In: Unger R (ed.) Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change. Rachel Carson Centre Perspectives, 2. Munich: Rachel Carson Centre, pp. 17-24. http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/download/publications/perspectives/2013_perspectives/1302_energy_web_color1.pdf
Abstract
This essay explores the transitions in fuel use that occurred in Scotland between the later 15th and mid 19th centuries and the various drivers behind those transitions: shortages/market price; technological; ideological; fashion.
Keywords
energy transitions; fuel resources; modernity; Scotland
| Status | Published |
|---|---|
| Title of series | Rachel Carson Centre Perspectives |
| Number in series | 2 |
| Publication date | 31/12/2013 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20081 |
| Publisher | Rachel Carson Centre |
| Publisher URL | http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/…y_web_color1.pdf |
| Place of publication | Munich |
| ISSN of series | 2190-5088 |
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Professor, History