Brian C Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 456881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian C Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian C |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University-Altoona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caleb Wellum. Energizing Neoliberalism
An Environmental History of the Civil War
Beginning from the assumption that humans are “connected creatures” in a dynamic natural community, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver write, “Within that community, the natural world always affects any human activity. In turn, human actions, in war or any other enterprise, alter nature.” After listing some of the different scholarly approaches that have been attempted, they continue that environmental historians still lack a work that considers …
A Thousand Ways Denied
Reviewed by: A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana by John T. Arnold Brian C. Black (bio) A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana By John T. Arnold. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana By John T. Arnold. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. Well researched and nicely il…
Burning Up
Reviewed by: Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption by Simon Pirani Brian C. Black (bio) Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption. By Simon Pirani. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Pp. 272. Paperback $27. Addressing the many readers who will come to Burning Up from economic history, Simon Pirani immediately explains to his readers that his book is about energy: focused on these technological, social and economic systems,…
Shale Boom
Shale Boom applies Diana Davids Hinton’s careful research on the energy industry toward our current boom to develop the shale resource in the area of Fort Worth, Texas. Waning traditional reserves of petroleum led many geologists to forecast the end of fossil fuels in the early twenty-first century. Hinton accurately explains that “What turned dire forecasts upside down was the use of new Barnett Shale, and it has had immense national and global …
Schubert’s Development of Harmonic Motives in his Early String Quartets
This essay looks at Schubert’s handling of harmonic motives in the first movements of four of his early string quartets dating from the period of approximately 1811 until late 1814, when he was fourteen to seventeen years old. Despite their many structural problems, these pieces provide an insight into Schubert’s development as a composer of sonata form. Even in the earliest of the examples studied, the young composer attempts to draw affective a…
A Story of Six Rivers
Urban Rivers
Horses at Work
Horses at Work
Urban Rivers
A Story of Six Rivers
Schubert’s Development of Harmonic Motives in his Early String Quartets
This essay looks at Schubert’s handling of harmonic motives in the first movements of four of his early string quartets dating from the period of approximately 1811 until late 1814, when he was fourteen to seventeen years old. Despite their many structural problems, these pieces provide an insight into Schubert’s development as a composer of sonata form. Even in the earliest of the examples studied, the young composer attempts to draw affective a…
Shale Boom
Shale Boom applies Diana Davids Hinton’s careful research on the energy industry toward our current boom to develop the shale resource in the area of Fort Worth, Texas. Waning traditional reserves of petroleum led many geologists to forecast the end of fossil fuels in the early twenty-first century. Hinton accurately explains that “What turned dire forecasts upside down was the use of new Barnett Shale, and it has had immense national and global …
Burning Up
Reviewed by: Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption by Simon Pirani Brian C. Black (bio) Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption. By Simon Pirani. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Pp. 272. Paperback $27. Addressing the many readers who will come to Burning Up from economic history, Simon Pirani immediately explains to his readers that his book is about energy: focused on these technological, social and economic systems,…
A Thousand Ways Denied
Reviewed by: A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana by John T. Arnold Brian C. Black (bio) A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana By John T. Arnold. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana By John T. Arnold. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. Well researched and nicely il…
An Environmental History of the Civil War
Beginning from the assumption that humans are “connected creatures” in a dynamic natural community, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver write, “Within that community, the natural world always affects any human activity. In turn, human actions, in war or any other enterprise, alter nature.” After listing some of the different scholarly approaches that have been attempted, they continue that environmental historians still lack a work that considers …
Caleb Wellum. Energizing Neoliberalism
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · History (5 works) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (4 works) · History of Science and Medicine (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Economic history (2 works)