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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • STS.038 (Fall 2006) 
  • Course Title:
  • Energy and Environment in American History: 1705-2005 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Science, Technology, and Society 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Peter Shulman 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • STS.038 Energy and Environment in American History: 1705-2005



    Fall 2006




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive list of readings with corresponding reading questions as well as a copy of its final exam.


    Course Description


    A survey of how America has become the world's largest consumer of energy. Explores American history from the perspective of energy and its relationship to politics, diplomacy, the economy, science and technology, labor, culture, and the environment. Topics include muscle and water power in early America, coal and the Industrial Revolution, electrification, energy consumption in the home, oil and U.S. foreign policy, automobiles and suburbanization, nuclear power, OPEC and the 70's energy crisis, global warming, and possible paths for the future.
     

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