1st Edition
Economic History of the European Energy Industry Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st centuries
1. Introduction
Alberte Martínez-López, Jesús Mirás-Araujo and Nuria Rodríguez-Martín
2. Energy transitions in Europe
Nuno Madureira
3. The emergence of a competitor: The impact of the development of electricity on the gas sector through Le Gaz Journal in the last third of the 19th century
José Joaquín Luque García and Alberte Martínez-López
4. Electricity and gas in Spain, between competition and complementarity
Joan Carles Alayo-Manubens and Francesc Xavier Barca-Salom
5. The rivalry between gas and electricity in France and Spain through advertising and marketing (1890-1936)
Antonio Rafael Fernández-Paradas and Nuria Rodríguez-Martín
6. The withdrawal of foreign capital from the gas industry in Spain in the first third of the twentieth century
María Vázquez-Fariñas, Mariano Castro-Valdivia and Juan Manuel Matés-Barco
7. Pre-war and war energy market in Latin Europe: Gas and electricity in Spain and France in the 1930s
Mercedes Fernández-Paradas, Carlos Larrinaga Rodríguez and Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa
8. How did the Second World War affect gas consumption in Western Europe?
Mercedes Fernández-Paradas, Alberte Martínez-López and Jesús Mirás-Araujo
9. More an Iberian Island than a Peninsula: Gas pipelines between France and Spain since c. 1955: Failures and achievements
Jesús María Valdaliso Gago, Patricia Suárez Cano and Carlos Alvarado-García
10. Gas supplies to France and Italy from the end of the Second World War to the present day
Andrea Giuntini and Jean-Pierre Williot
11. The Redevelopment and Repurposing of Historic Gas Site
Russell Thomas
12. Epilogue - EU, war and energy: geostrategy and gas pipelines
Pere-A. Fàbregas
Biography
Alberte Martínez-López is Professor of Economic History at the University of A Coruña (Spain), where he coordinates the Business History Study Group.
Jesús Mirás-Araujo is Senior Lecturer of Economic History at the Department of Economics of the University of A Coruña (Spain).
Nuria Rodríguez-Martín is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
