4 Frederick Tryon and the Decoupling of Energy and Economic Growth in the 1920s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 “The Largest and Most Important Renewable Energy Project in the World” 21
6. 2 “Coal Will Be the Primary Fuel of the Future” 35
7. 3 The Fear of Being “Left Behind in the Dust” 55
8. 4 Frederick Tryon and the Decoupling of Energy and Economic Growth in the 1920s 71
9. 5 The Colony and the World Energy Revolution 84
10. 6 The Red Thread to Socialism 103
11. 7 Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo and the Invention of Anticolonial Democratic Oil Conservation 124
12. 8 Privatizing a Colonial Electricity Undertaking 144
13. 9 Gender, Food, and Vernacular Energy in Moussa Travélé’s “Three Rapid People” 157
14. 10 Uncertain Energy Epistemologies 169
15. 11 Laura Nader’s Third-Wave Energy Anthropology 183
16. 12 The Master Resource 202
17. Conclusion 223
18. Acknowledgments 229
19. Notes 231
20. Index 273