George A. Gonzalez

Gebundenes Buch

American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands

Beschreibung

Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being 'hydrofracked' to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being 'processed' - thereby generating large amounts of crude. This book places the unconventional fossil fuels revolution that is taking place in North America within the context of great power politics.

Autor

George A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, USA. He is the author of Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital (2009), Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States (2012), Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic (2013) and The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future (2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-53955-7
• 1st edition 2019
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781137539557
• ISBN-10: 1137539550
• Artikelnr.: 43778895

Rezensionen

"Gonzalez (Univ. of Miami) offers a theoretically informed, critical analysis of US global energy policy. ... Recommended for university and larger public libraries, and specialized collections in international affairs, foreign policy, economics, and security studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (J. P. Smaldone, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)