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Crude politics by paul sabin university of california press. The next steps to global justice by joseph stiglitz 358pp, allen lane, pounds 20. Sabin is an academic at yale who teaches environmental history. The new politics of the welfare state harvard university. He coordinates the yale environmental history working group and the yale environmental humanities initiative, and helps lead yales undergraduate environmental studies major.
How did americans grow so dependent on petroleum, and what can we learn from our history that will help us craft successful policies for the future. Nov 05, 2004 the war on words reading is a democratic activity, argues philip pullman, and theocracies discourage it. We find that, in terms of global average hourly income, commodity prices fell by 64. The california oil market, 19001940 u of california press, 2005. Paul sabin teaches united states environmental history, energy politics, and political, legal, and economic history. Dec 05, 2016 american government and politics today.
Debating the issues in american politics, 5th edition. Before joining the yale faculty, paul served as founding executive director of the nonprofit environmental leadership program. Mar 01, 2008 paul sabins crude politics is an excellent building block in this emerging literature. Oil has transformed the world and remains the most important resource of. The war on words reading is a democratic activity, argues philip pullman, and theocracies discourage it. No separate policy chapters version, 20162017 edition.
It was a joy to teach and to discuss with my students. It is a model of systematic, datarich analysis with much to say to both historians and policy makers. In 1903, california became the leading oilproducing state in the us, and traded the number one position backand forth with oklahoma through the year 1930. It will reexamine the conventional wisdom about oils effect on state and society held by the rentier state theory and offer new insights about the causes of authoritarianism in the middle east. Sabin crude politics cleverly traces the ideological extremes through the careers of paul ehrlich, known for his warnings about explosive population growth, and his lesser known adversary julian simon, who advocated that technological advancement. For example, as the huntington beach oil field expanded, the homes in that area that stood in the path of drawing oil from the ground were physically relocated north 6 miles 9. The fabulous life and times of the union oil company of california 1966 351pp. Prepared for handbook of energy and climate change. Jan 01, 20 paul sabin teaches american history at yale university.
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