Simon Pirani, Burning up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption. Pluto Press, 2018, 272 pp.

Simon Pirani is an energy historian at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and an honorary professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures – Durham University, and known for his publications on the development of natural gas markets and changing consumption patterns in the former Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and Ukraine (Pirani, 2008, 2009a, 2009b; Henderson & Pirani, 2014).