Past and Present Energy Societies : How Energy Connects Politics Technologies and Cultures Abundant salutary problematic energy makes history. As a symbol resource and consumer good it shapes technologies politics societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types from electricity and oil to bioenergy this volume analyzes the social cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems applications media representations and consumer practice.By examining and connecting production mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined discussed staged and used.