Overview
- Offers an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the gas sector and technology in Latin Europe
- Presents the first marketing strategies carried out by the gas industry to get popular support
- Examines the impact of the 1st and 2nd World War on gas supply in Latin Europe
Part of the book series: Frontiers in Economic History (FEH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dawn and Consolidation of Latin Europe’s Industrialisation: The Evolution of Gas in the Nineteenth Century
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The Turning Point: Competition Between Gas and Electricity At the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
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About this book
Topics discussed include, but are not limited to the evolution of gas technology and associations; capital, technical, and human transfer among countries; strategies carried out by gas companies to promote their activity; how gas companies adapted to changing markets, faced with the competition of electricity at the end of the 19th century, until late 20th century; and how war, especially the Second World War, affected gas supply in Latin Europe. Finally, the volume discusses the emerginguse of natural gas by France and Italy after 1945, which meant a quantitative advantage compared to their neighbors in Latin Europe, Portugal and Spain, as well as a political advantage, in terms of energetic independence.
The book will appeal to scholars, students, and researchers of economic history, business history, as well as technological history, interested in a better understanding of the evolution of gas into a major energy source, a role that it has kept until today.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexandre Fernandez is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne (France) and member of Research Centre CEMMC (Centre d’études sur les mondes moderne et contemporain). He is President of the 22è section (Modern History and Modern History of Arts) of the Conseil National des Universités since 2015. His research focuses on the history of energy, as well as the history of urban networks and utilities.
Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa is a full-time lecturer for Contemporary History at the University of Malaga, Malaga (Spain). He holds a PhD in contemporary Spanish history and has published several works on the history of the gas industry and the Spanish industrial take-off.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History
Book Subtitle: Lighting and Heating the World
Editors: Ana Cardoso de Matos, Alexandre Fernandez, Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa
Series Title: Frontiers in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36674-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36673-4Published: 14 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36676-5Due: 15 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36674-1Published: 13 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-9771
Series E-ISSN: 2662-978X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 160
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, European Economics, Economics, general