The project on the global history of energy is based at the Joint Center for History and Economics and the MIT Research Group on History, Energy, and Environment. The project explores how the historical study of energy use and transformation can widen perspectives of economic, social, and environmental processes in the past. It also serves as a forum for the historical discussion of energy in all its forms in a global and comparative context.

The Energy History Project is supported by a Large-Scale Seed Grant from the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Participants include Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck/ Centre for History and Economics), Richard Hornbeck (Harvard), Ian Miller (Harvard), Harriet Ritvo (MIT), Emma Rothschild (Harvard) and Paul Warde (UEA/Centre for History and Economics).

This page is co-ordinated by Philipp Lehmann, Victor Seow, and Joshua Specht.

 

 

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Means of Transport | Coastal Frontiers | The Future of Nature

Means of Transport: Technology, Mobility, and Energy in Modern Asia
24-25 April 2014
Harvard University
A workshop organized by the Joint Center for History and Economics will be held in Harvard on April 24-25, 2014. The workshop is part of the program on the global history of energy, supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and will bring together scholars working on the history of transportation in modern Asia. For further details please contact Emily Gauthier.

Coastal Frontiers: Water, Power, and the Boundaries of South Asia

Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London, and an Associate Research Fellow of the Centre since 2006, has been awarded a European Research Council grant for his new project, Coastal Frontiers: Water, Power, and the Boundaries of South Asia, which will be undertaken from 2012 to 2017.

The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change

by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, and Paul Warde (eds.)
(Yale University Press, 2013)