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Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes how humans thought about, harnessed, stored, and exploited stocks and flows of energy. In recent decades, in response to evidence of the effect of fossil fuel use in our climatic system and coinciding with an energy turn across the humanities, a new urgency and purpose has been ascribed to such work. Energy's History challenges abstract and universalizing conceptions of energy's history-making capacities. This collection contains twelve chapters that present, analyze, and contextualize a primary ...
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Four Brothers from Downham is a comprehensive surname study of the Waxham family in the United States and England. The book represents an attempt to combine scholarly methodology and rigorous documentation with a light, easy-to-read narrative style. The author acknowledges the assistance of 56 contributors. This volume can be read by Waxham relatives and descendants for family background, by genealogists as a guide on how to organize a surname study in which numerous individuals share the same name, and by the general public as a slice of history and a rousing human-interest story.