Energy and the Making of Modern California illuminates the forces that formed the state's culture and economy through the interplay of technology, population gr

The proliferation of electric communication and power networks have drawn wires through American landscapes like vines through untended gardens since 1844. But

In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did workin

In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimac

Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize