The gas sector in Latin Europe's industrial history : lighting and heating the world / Ana Cardoso de Matos, Alexandre Fernandez, Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa, editors.
Matos, A. C. (Ana Cardoso), editor.; Fernandez, Alexandre, editor.; Jesús Pinto Tortosa, Antonio, editor.
2023
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The gas sector in Latin Europe's industrial history : lighting and heating the world / Ana Cardoso de Matos, Alexandre Fernandez, Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa, editors.
ISBN
9783031366741 (electronic bk.)
3031366743 (electronic bk.)
9783031366734
3031366735
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36674-1
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 160 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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10.1007/978-3-031-36674-1 doi
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HD9581.E8
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/76657094
Summary
This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the early 19th century to consolidate its position in the energy market. It traces the history of gas energy use in a European context to understand the reasons for its crucial nature in the region. Going back to the start of gas production in England and France at the turn of the 18th century, the book has a specific focus on Latin Europe: Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy. Topics discussed include, but are not limited to the evolution of gas technology and associations; capital, technical, and human transfer among countries; strategies carried out by gas companies to promote their activity; how gas companies adapted to changing markets, faced with the competition of electricity at the end of the 19th century, until late 20th century; and how war, especially the Second World War, affected gas supply in Latin Europe. Finally, the volume discusses the emerging use of natural gas by France and Italy after 1945, which meant a quantitative advantage compared to their neighbors in Latin Europe, Portugal and Spain, as well as a political advantage, in terms of energetic independence. The book will appeal to scholars, students, and researchers of economic history, business history, as well as technological history, interested in a better understanding of the evolution of gas into a major energy source, a role that it has kept until today.
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Matos, A. C. (Ana Cardoso), editor.
Fernandez, Alexandre, editor.
Jesús Pinto Tortosa, Antonio, editor.
Series
Frontiers in economic history, 2662-978X
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Chapter 1. Why Gas?
Chapter 2. Why Latin Europe?
Part 1: Dawn and Consolidation of Latin Europe's Industrialisation: the Evolution of Gas in the 19th Century
Chapter 3. The Internationalization of the English Gas Industry in Latin Europe in the 19th Century
Chapter 4. First Steps of Industrial Associationism in Latin Europe's Gas Sector: the Société Française De L'industrie Du Gaz
Chapter 5. Gas Lighting for the Crown: análisis of the Use of Gas Lighting Within the Festivities to Commemorate the Bonaparte and the Bourbon Dynasties in Paris (France) and Madrid (Spain)
Chapter 6. Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Foreign Investment, and Marketing Implementation of Gas Services in Portuguese Cities of Lisbon and Porto During the Second Half of the 19th Century
Chapter 7. The Role of the Technical Press in the Diffusion of Gas in Europe: the Case of Le Gaz Journal, 1857-1880
Part 2: the Turning Point: Competition Between Gas and Electricity at the Turn of the 19th Century
Chapter 8. Gas Versus Electricity in Paris and Rome From the 1880s to the 1910s
Chapter 9. The Gas Industry of the North of Spain, C. 1845-1945
Chapter 10. Gas as a Goal. The Evolution of Gas Technology in Spain Until 1936
Chapter 11. The Impact of World War Ii on Gas Production in Latin Europe
Chapter 12. The Use of Computers in the Spanish Gas Industry. The First Comer: Catalana De Gas Y Electricidad (1962-1969).

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