Lifeblood - Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital

Matthew T. Huber is assistant professor of geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

List of contents

Contents
Introduction: Oil, Life, Politics
1. The Power of Oil? Energy, Machines, and the Forces of Capital2. Refueling Capitalism: Depression, Oil, and the Making of “the American Way of Life”3. Fractionated Lives: Refineries and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life4. Shocked! “Energy Crisis,” Neoliberalism, and the Construction of an Apolitical Economy5. Pain at the Pump: Gas Prices, Life, and Death under Neoliberalism
Conclusion: Energizing Freedom
AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Matthew T. Huber is assistant professor of geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

Summary

Looking beyond the usual culprits, Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Matthew T. Huber uses oil to retell American political history from the triumph of New Deal liberalism to the rise of the New Right, from oil's celebration as the lifeblood of postwar capitalism to increasing anxieties over oil addiction.

Product details

• Authors: Huber, Matthew T. Huber
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.08.2013
• EAN: 9780816677856
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-7785-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Quadrant Book; Quadrant Books (Paperback); A Quadrant Book; A Quadrant Book
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education