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Hartmut Berghoff is Director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Adam Rome is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
List of contents
Preface
—Roger Horowitz
PART I. THE BIG PICTURE
Chapter 1. The Ecology of Commerce: Environmental History and the Challenge of Building a Sustainable Economy
—Adam Rome 1
Chapter 2. Shades of Green: A Business-History Perspective on Eco-Capitalism
—Hartmut Berghoff
Chapter 3. The Role of Businesses in Constructing Systems of Environmental Governance
—Hugh S. Gorman
PART II. CONSERVATION BEFORE ENVIRONMENTALISM
Chapter 4. Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America
—Christine Meisner Rosen
Chapter 5. "Constructive and Not Destructive Development": Permanent Uses of Resources in the American South
—William D. Bryan
Chapter 6. Utilities as Conservationists? The Paradox of Electrification During the Progressive Era in North America
—Julie Cohn
PART III. FAILURES AND DILEMMAS
Chapter 7. Plastic Six-Pack Rings: The Business and Politics of an Environmental Problem
—David Kinkela
Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of an Ecostar: Green Technology Innovation and Marketing as Regulatory Obstruction
—Leif Fredrickson
PART IV. GOING GREEN
Chapter 9. Dilemmas of Going Green: Environmental Strategies in the Swedish Mining Company Boliden, 1960-2000
—Ann-Kristin Bergquist
Chapter 10. Private Companies and the Recycling of Household Waste in West Germany, 1965-1990
—Roman Köster
Chapter 11. Kill-a-Watt: The Greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s
—Joseph A. Pratt
Chapter 12. Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy
—Geoffrey Jones
Chapter 13. Driving Change: The Winding Road to Greener Automobiles
—Brian C. Black
Notes
Contributors
Acknowledgments
About the author
Hartmut Berghoff is Director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Adam Rome is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Summary
Can capitalism ever truly be environmentally conscious? Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century provides a historical analysis of the relationship between business interests and environmental initiatives over the past century.
