Energy Capitals Local Impact Global Influence
Publisher Name | University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | TEC |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0822962667 |
Isbn 13 | 9780822962663 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Series | 000335442 |
Dimensions | 00.89" H x 70.06" L x 11.00" W |
Page Count | 288 |
Joseph A. Pratt is the NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston where he has served as chair of the history department and interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He is the coordinator of the Energy Management and Policy Group at the University of Houston and the director of the Houston History Project. Pratt has written extensively on both the history of the petroleum industry and Houston. His latest book is Exxon: Transforming Energy, 1973-2005. Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. Melosi received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) and the Esther Farfel Award from the University of Houston. He has served as president of the ASEH, the National Council on Public History, the Public Works Historical Society, and the Urban History Association. Melosi has written or edited nineteen books, most recently Atomic Age America. Kathleen A. Brosnan is Paul and Doris Eaton Travis Chair of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma. She also received the Distinguished Service Award from ASEH and currently is ASEH president-elect. She is the author of Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range, editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, and coeditor of City Dreams, Country Schemes: Utopian Visions of the Twentieth-Century American West.