Ethanol
A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels
$109.95
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2025
Summary
Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years - good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon or boondoggle? - its use goes back more than a century. Tracing the little-known history of this promising and contentious fuel, Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels reveals the transnational nature of ethanol’s development by its two biggest producers, the U.S. and Brazil. By drawing the connections between the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780806196015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0806196017 |
| Author: | Jeffrey T. Manuel, Thomas D. Rogers |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Imprint: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 604g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Manuel and Rogers make an important contribution to the growing field of energy humanities studies. By examining the transnational connections and divergences between ethanol’s development in Brazil and the United States, the authors open new dialogue about the place of alternative fuels in international energy regimes of the twentieth century and their evolution in the twenty-first.” - Jennifer Eaglin, author of Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol
“Manuel and Rogers offer invaluable insight and information on the decades-long dance Brazil and the United States have performed with ethanol production and environmental attitudes, science, and the agricultural marketplace. Ethanol:A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels tells a unique transnational story that speaks to the human effort to develop alternatives to fossil fuel dominance.” - Brian C. Black, author of Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History
Jeffrey T. Manuel
Jeffrey T. Manuel is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915-2000.
Thomas D. Rogers is Professor of History at Emory University and the author of Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution.
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