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...Jorge Salazar-Carrillo Latin American Oil Companies and the Politics of Energy . Edited by Wirth John D. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1985 . Graphs. Notes. Tables. Photographs. Appendixes. Index . Pp. xxxix , 282 . Cloth . $27.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke...

...Frederico Freitas Agriculture's Energy ends with an epilogue that deals with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first presidency amid a second ethanol boom fueled by the development of flex-fuel cars in Brazil after 2003. Overall, Rogers does an outstanding job tracing the historical complexities...

...Helen Yaffe The third chapter is aptly titled “Blackout,” a term that characterizes the Special Period of economic crisis in the 1990s, which was fundamentally an energy crisis. Cederlöf shows how Cuba responded by developing a low-carbon economy without high-tech innovations. Based...

...Edward Beatty Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950 . By Germán Vergara . Studies in Environment and History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 322 pp. Cloth, $99.99 . Copyright ©...

... Mexico and the United States: Energy, Trade, Investment, Immigration, Tourism . Edited by McBride Robert H. . Preface by Sullivan William H. . Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1981 . Tables. Maps. Figures. Index . Pp. vi , 197 . Paper . Copyright 1984...

... Energy in The Transition from Rural Subsistence . Edited by Wionczek Miguel S. , Foley Gerald , and van Buren Ariane . Boulder : Westview Press , 1982 . Tables. Notes. Appendix . Pp. xv , 208 . Cloth . $22.50 . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983...

...Stefan Pohl-Valero In Colombia early in the twentieth century, a field of research began to take shape that looked at work and the physiology of diet, centered on the analogy of the human body as a heat engine that transforms energy. Starting with the energy unit of calories, foods were translated...

...Peter Gregory Energy and Development in Latin America: Perspectives for Public Policy . By Choucri Nazli . Lexington, Mass. : D. C. Heath and Co. , 1982 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 225 . Cloth. Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983...

...George Grayson U.S.—Mexican Energy Relationships: Realities and Prospects . Edited by Ladman Jerry R. , Baldwin Deborah J. , and Bergman Elihu . Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath , 1981 . Map. Figures. Tables. Index . Pp. xvii , 237 . Cloth. Copyright 1982 by Duke...

...John P. Augelli Population and Energy: A Systems Analysis of Resource Utilization in the Dominican Republic . By Antonini Gustavo A. , Ewell Katherine Carter , and Tupper Howard M. . Gainesville , 1975 . Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida Press . Maps...

...Jacob Blanc [email protected] Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s–1990s . By Matthew P. Johnson . Studies in Environment and History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2024 . Photograph. Maps. Notes. Bibliography...

... , August 1986:624-626) with what the publisher wrote about the book rather than what I had written in it. The rest of his review, though, does deal with important substantive issues. He dismisses as trivial the Amazon’s chronic net export of energy as an explanation of its persistent underdevelopment...

... as unchanging because it gives readers no historical detail. It presents an ecological theory of value that cannot account for the dynamic flow of energy in and out of systems, and that overlooks the technical difficulties of executing research of region-wide significance in the Amazon, given its diversity...

... development from the 1930s to the present, when flex-fuel cars, powered by any combination of gasoline and ethanol, account for over 80 percent of light vehicles. Although hailed as a renewable energy model, the program was embroiled in authoritarian politics, corporate subsidies, labor exploitation...

... to enforce uniform and rigorous conservation. It does not allow market or war psychology to dominate production planning in basic industry. The results are impressive, as Bullard shows. Since 1948 consumption of gas and petroleum energy in Mexico has increased 400 percent, with gas supplying about 20...

..., and that the chief exploiters in the process were Latin America’s own corrupt governments and greedy elites. Corporate retrenchment during the great world depression was countered by rising economic nationalism. World War II saw Latin America make a significant energy contribution to the Allied military effort...

... untouched field, this history of energy production and consumption in Colombia is stimulating in its originality, frustrating in its brevity, and provocative in its interpretation. The author’s sources include both an interesting collection of published materials and an array of public and private archival...

... Energy Minister Calderón Berti decided, in August 1981, to move the headquarters of MENEVEN from Caracas to Puerto La Cruz, the author resigned, hinting darkly that “real estate interests” were involved in the decision, and during 1982 he became a fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs...

..., particularly in pinpointing the determinates of United States government action; it reads like high-class Jack Anderson. Although printed in 1980, by which time new trends of oil and energy consumption were apparent, Saxe-Fernández’s study repeats, reprints, and harps on the meanings of obsolete projections...

...); the environmental impacts of the city’s early textile mills (Rosalva Loreto López); the engineering, design, and location of its numerous bridges (Dirk Bühler); its potable water system (Mayra Gabriela Toxqui Furlong); and the water and energy regimes of the industrialization of its textile production (Mariano...