Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System

George A. Gonzalez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami and the author of many books, including Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States and Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic, both also published by SUNY Press.

• Theoretical OverviewPreface1. Energy and the Modern State2. The Political Economy of Energy3. Urban Sprawl in the U.S. and the Creation of the Hitler Regime4. Urban Sprawl, the Great Depression, and the Start of World War II5. U.S. Economic Elites, Nuclear Power, and Solar Energy6. Global Oil Politics7. Plutonium and U.S. Foreign PolicyConclusionEnergy and the Global OrderNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"This book advances a hard-hitting and well-made argument about the energy-resource bases of state power, political and economic development, and the capture of government by corporate elites. It combines historical domestic development with the rise and consolidation of US hegemony. It successfully links domestic elite planners, funded by major corporate forces, with state power, providing a major critique of US capitalist democracy and its severe limitations." — Inderjeet Parmar, author of Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power