Electrical Conquest

lt;p>W. Bernard Carlson manages the M.Sc programs in TechInnovation and AgInnovation at the University of Galway in Ireland.  He is also the Joseph L. Vaughan Emeritus Professor of Humanities  at the University of Virginia. He is also a lecturer in the Tech Innovate program at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has written widely on inventors and electrical history, and his books include Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age (Princeton University Press, 2013).

Erik M Conway is an independent scholar and an author on seven books, including Merchants of Doubt and The Big Myth, both with Naomi Oreskes, and Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars.

Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A Model for Heterogeneous Energy Transitions.- Chapter 3. Surveying the Landscape: The Oil Industry and Alternative Energy in the 1970s.- Chapter 4. We Have No Niagara": Electrifying the "Britain of the South.- Chapter 5. Formation and Transformations of the Cuban Electric Company/Unión Eléctrica, 1920s-1980s.- Chapter 6. Between Material Dependencies, Natural Commons and Politics of Electrical Transitions: The State as Networks of Power in Greece, 1940-2010.- Chapter 7. Large-scale Renewables and Infrastructure Gatekeepers: How Local Actors Shaped the Texas Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) Initiative.- Chapter 8. Co-ops Against Castroism: USAID and the Electrification of the Global Countryside.- Chapter 9. Vehicle-to-Grid, Regulated Deregulation, and the Energy Conversion Imaginary.