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The Material Realities of Energy HistoriesA Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire (CJH/ACH)The appropriation and control of the flow of energy from the sun and stocks of energy stored beneath the surface of the Earth influenced changes to human societies in the past. Ideology, cultural norms, scientific knowledge, and technology informed how people used energy, and the use of energy transformed relationships between people, and between humans and the natural world. Over time, people devised more efficient ways of harnessing and directing energy, while at the same time breaking the constraints of older patterns of use by adopting new energy sources and fuels. And despite moments of scarcity or crisis, the scale of energy used by humans has always tended toward ever-greater amounts.Energy history has grown considerably from a largely overlooked sub-field to an important and relevant lineof historical enquiry. Responding to the realization that human energy use has been directly responsiblefor monumental social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental changes, such as industrialization, urbanization, global warming, and the onset of the Anthropocene, historians have begun to embrace the need to understand better how energy structured human societies.The Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire is pleased to welcome abstracts of articles for a special issue on energy history. The proposed essays should explore topics that address the transnational dimensions and multiple scales of the material realities and environmental consequences of energy production, distribution, and consumption in any time period. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full article manuscripts for double-blind peer review.Possible themes may include, but are not limited to: energy sources/fuels/commodities energy networks/infrastructure efforts to connect sites of energy production and consumption industrialization, urbanization, transportation, resource development, agriculture energy abundance/scarcity energy justice/inequality energy regimes/transitions households/consumer culture transformations of environment/landscapeThose interested should send a 250-300 word abstract by 2 June 2017 to the attention of guest editor Andrew Watson (cjh@usask.ca). Invited authors will be asked to submit a full article manuscript for peer review by 15 September 2017.