The world of oil in the 1950s and 1960s -- Shortages, forecasts, prevention : supplying the Western world with oil -- The global communication of the "Arab oil weapon" -- The politics of sovereignty in the energy crisis : the United States -- West Germany within the world of oil -- Oil...

The method of inquiry -- Fracking for oil and natural gas in Texas and its impacts on the economy -- Environmental federalism and federal regulations on fracking -- Factors affecting states' decision to frack and State of Texas' regulations on fracking -- Fracking and its impacts on the...

The power of oil? energy, machines, and the forces of capital -- Refueling capitalism : depression, oil, and the making of "the American way of life" -- Fractionated lives : refineries and the ecology of entrepreneurial life -- Shocked! "energy crisis," neoliberalism, and the construction of an...