(EVST 108) Climate and Energy in Modern History

4 Credits

This course examines the historical roots of the climate emergency. Focused on the history of energy, we will explore how empire, industrialization, and fossil fuels remade societies around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through global case studies, we will encounter histories of energy regimes, extractivism, plastics, electricity, wildfires, weather events, disasters and disaster response, and the emergence and suppression of climate science and climate politics. Attribute/Distribution: CC, SS, SW, W