Recent publications
Book
Shin, H 2025, The age of paper: the bank note, communal currency and British society, 1790s–1830s. Cambridge Studies in Economic History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Wright, R, Shin, H & Trentmann, F 2019, Power, Energy and International Cooperation: A History of the World Energy Council, 1923–2018. Oekom Verlag.
Article
Shin, H 2024, 'Fukushima Before Nuclear Power: Developmentalism, Sub-States and the Landscape of Energy Extraction in Japan', Environmental History.
Shin, H 2018, 'Energy/Culture: A Reading Guide for Historical Literature', Science Museum Group Journal, vol. 9.
Divall, C & Shin, H 2018, 'Engineers v. industrial designers: The struggle for professional control over the British Railways Mark 2 Coach, c. 1955–66', Journal of Transport History, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 145-169. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022526618768417
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Shin, H & Chappells, H 2021, The making of energy consumers: from mutual provisioning to mass markets and beyond. in J Webb, F Wade & M Tingey (eds), Research Handbook on Energy and Society. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 45-56. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100710.00012
Shin, H 2019, At the Edge of the Network of Power in Japan, c.1910s–1960s. in S Abram, BR Winthereik & T Yarrow (eds), Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures. Bloomsbury, pp. 101–119.
Chapter
Shin, H 2024, Japan: how has fear of energy scarcity led to techno-utopian inertia? in I Szeman & J Wenzel (eds), Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy and Environment. West Virginia University Press.
Shin, H & Trentmann, F 2019, Energy Shortages and the Politics of Time: Resilience, Redistribution and ‘Normality’ in Japan and East Germany, 1940s–1970s. in J Brewer, N Fromer & F Trentmann (eds), Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800–2075. Bloomsbury, pp. 247–265.
Shin, H & Trentmann, F 2019, The Material Politics of Energy Disruption: Managing Shortages Amidst Rising Expectations, Britain 1930s–60s. in Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton. Boydell and Brewer, pp. 263–280.
Shin, H 2018, Between Luxury and Necessity: Electricity in Britain, 1920s–1950s. in H Shin, Y Tanaka & S Majima (eds), Objects, Desire and Sociability: History of Consumer Culture. Forum for History of Consumer Culture, Tokyo, pp. 66-73.
Book/Film/Article review
Shin, H 2024, 'Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong: By Mark L. Clifford. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 312.', Technology and Culture, vol. 65, no. 3, 1010-1011. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a933111
Shin, H 2024, 'Carbon technocracy: Energy regimes in modern East Asia. Victor Seow, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. pp. 376. 25 figs. ISBN: 9780226826554. Pbk. $27.50)', The Economic History Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13380
Shin, H 2023, 'Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. 265. ISBN 978-0-2957-4733-0. $40.00 (hardback).', The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 602-603. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087423000602
Other contribution
Shin, H & Chappells, H 2021, Energy Communication Toolkit. Science Museum, London. <https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-09/Energy-Communication-Toolkit-pv1_web.pdf>
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