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  • The Use of Energy History

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  • Caleb Wellum
  • Journal:
    Modern American History / Volume 6 / Issue 2 / July 2023
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    18 August 2023, pp. 201-219
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  • While there is no energy determinism, there is a powerful energy determination at work in all societies.

  • The Growing Rift between Workers and Environmentalists

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  • Erik Loomis
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    Modern American History / Volume 1 / Issue 3 / November 2018
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    27 July 2018, pp. 377-380
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  • Crude Reality

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  • Adam Rome
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    Modern American History / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / March 2018
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    05 January 2018, pp. 77-82
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  • Oil is the elephant in every room in modern American history. From the consumer-culture room to the politics room, the labor room to the U.S.-and-the-world room, oil is right there, as big as Texas, yet hardly anyone notices. That is less true than it used to be. The Journal of American History even devoted a special issue to oil in 2012. Yet modern American historians still have not thought enough about “crude reality.”