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Is there anything new to say about the 1973 oil shock or Indira Gandhi’s India? Here’s hoping so. At long last, my article is out in the AHR: “Late Acceleration: The Indian Emergency and the Early 1970s Energy Crisis.” 1/ doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

A historic day. Good riddance to coal-fired power in Britain after 142 years!

@tushar15 Did you manage to get hold of these reports? I only have the 2012 classic and would love to see the updates for the later years. Any chance you'd be willing to share them? Thanks so much!

Hey, Twitter. Do your thing. Does anyone have a copy of the 'House of Debt' report published between 2012 and 2015, authored by Ashish Gupta for Credit Suisse?

@FredrikAlbritt1 Haha that’s a backhanded compliment!

Freebie of the day: my new colleague Sam Daly’s exciting new book on militarism as an ideology and a (counterintuitive) legal culture, helping to explain the troubling persistence of military rule across Africa. Ft. oracles, Fela Kuti, and a lot of men in uniform

@GaraviniG Wow! do you find that credible? Important to note that this is true only over a 20-year period given the shorter life of methane in the atmosphere, but still big. I need to get my mitts on his report and maybe rewrite my LNG chapter…

“Robert Howarth, a professor at Cornell University and an expert in methane, argues in a forthcoming report that the emissions footprint of LNG equals or exceeds that of coal” on.ft.com/3zoxhQk

@rohlamba Congrats, Rohit. Charming profile photo too!

Grateful for new beginnings :) as.cornell.edu/news/new-facul…

@laurenstokes Ah this sounds like such a great important project - I love the proposed traveler-centered structure too. We’ll have to drag you southwards for an update at the end of the year. Have a blast!

relocating to Chicago's most Hanseatic sister city at the end of the week. can't wait to spend a whole year thinking about airports. hias-hamburg.de/en/fellow/laur…

@VBivar @acker_antoine Yes ma'am, though the failure of the solar cookers is probably more relevant to nation-building doi.org/10.1017/S17400… Honestly the best work at the intersection of gender (masculinity), energy + nation-building is being done by @JuliaKMead, who might have further suggestions

Environmental history folks: I'm looking for research at the intersection between gender and environmental history and which at the same time adresses the question of nation building / history of the nation state. Any recommendation?

"LIFE PUNISHES THE THRIFTLESS." Subtle thoughts on banking in/on the art deco Trustees System Service Building, Chicago (1929-30), ft. red marble from Oran, Algeria

Guilty as charged. I see epigraphs like montages over the opening credits, a bit of mood music for what’s to come. But totally agree that they’re secretly more for the author than the reader, a little hoard of shiny magpie things displayed with all the charm of a rock collection

@TehilaSasson @OxfordHistory @wadhamoxford Huge congratulations! Have a great time back in old Blighty

Some personal news: this fall I’ll be joining the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor of Modern History. I’ll miss my colleagues & students at Emory but looking forward to new opportunities with @OxfordHistory and to joining the progressive community @wadhamoxford

This great new paper by @adityaramesh11 complicates cliches about big multipurpose dams reinforcing state power. At Mettur, he shows that hydroelectricity ran up against the irrigation interest of "an older extractive apparatus, that of agrarian property" doi.org/10.1353/cap.20…

@parhee Omg what a life you lead - this is among my life goals after that show

Found out about Walz (🎉) while on my way to a ✨ refreshing ✨swim at the Forty Foot (influenced by Bad Sisters).

@Robert_Suits This is fantastic news! Enormous congratulations. They are very lucky to have you, and I hope you have an absolute blast getting to know London!

Some personal news: I'm delighted to share that starting this fall, I will be joining the department of history at University College London as Lecturer in Environmental History! (*Lecturer ~= Assistant Professor in the US!)

@hotdamhistorian And lord almighty the idea that the Hindu nationalist 🪷 would be preferable…! Might make one pause a bit before doling out electoral advice

During the 1970s, rising popular expectations in India collided with the energy crisis to impel a state-led embrace of coal, despite elite reservations about the environmental damage that would follow. Read more by @natterjee in the AHR’s June issue. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

@jeffmanuel @TDysonRogers @OUPress Yesss congratulations both! What good taste OUP have. So excited to get my mitts on this

Very excited to say that @TDysonRogers and I have a contract with @OUPress to publish our book, THE PERENNIAL ALTERNATIVE: THE HISTORY OF ETHANOL AND LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS, which will be the first book linking the US and Brazilian ethanol fuel programs.

@parhee w00t congratulations! May your copy editor be hawk-eyed

The day before I turned in grades in May I submitted the final draft of this book on how homeownership limited the ambitions of environmentalism and now am 10 days out from getting copy edits, so my main summer goals have been to take long walks, swim and (maybe) read Middlemarch

Georgia O’Keeffe paints the fossil fuel city (1927-8). Current exhibition “My New Yorks” is well worth visiting at @artinstitutechi