Università Roma Tre

The history of energy in the 1900s, between the environmental issue and economic problems
The course will deal with the use of different energies in the 1900s. Steam, electricity, gas, oil, nuclear and renewable sources will be considered by analyzing the cultural, scientific and technological contexts that have followed. The focus of the analysis will be how these different sources have responded to the demand for greater efficiency, representing significant advances in the economy, increases in the ability to create new technologies, but also great leaps in the possibility of changing the environment and consuming ever larger portions of nature. Until the dramatic urgency of a change at the end of the twentieth century.
Exam texts
1) John R. McNeill, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole. Storia dell'ambiente nel XX secolo, Einaudi, Torino 2002;
2) Grazia Pagnotta, Prometeo a Fukushima. Storia dell'energia dall'antichità a oggi, Einaudi, Torino 2020, pp. 186-436;
3) Essays in the exam folder present at the copy shop in via Leonardo da Vinci n. 285 (13 essays).

1) John R. McNeill, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole. Storia dell'ambiente nel XX secolo, Einaudi, Torino 2002;
2) Grazia Pagnotta, Prometeo a Fukushima. Storia dell'energia dall'antichità a oggi, Einaudi, Torino 2020, pp. 186-436;
3) Saggi nella cartellina dell’esame presente presso la copisteria di via Leonardo da Vinci n. 285 (13 saggi).