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Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the development of wind technology in Germany, Denmark, and the United States between 1940-1990. Information on the shaping of technologies; In-depth look at the regional and national characteristics of technological developments; Details on the history of wind power.