Cara New Daggett

The Birth of Energy

Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cara New Daggett is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781478005018
• ISBN-10: 1478005017
• Artikelnr.: 54612932

Autorenporträt

Cara New Daggett is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Putting the World to Work  1
Part I. The Birth of Energy
1. The Novelty of Energy  15
2. A Steampunk Production  33
3. A Geo-Theology of Energy  51
4. Work Becomes Energetic  83
Part II. Energy, Race, and Empire
5. Energopolitics  107
6. The Imperial Organism at Work  132
7. Education for Empire  162
Conclusion. A Post-Work Energy Politics  187
Notes  207
Bibliography  239
Index  255