Birth of Energy - Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

Informationen zum Autor Cara New Daggett Klappentext Cara New Daggett is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Zusammenfassung Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of the idea of energy from the Industrial Revolution to the present! showing how it has informed fossil fuel imperialism! the governance of work! and our relationship to the Earth. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Cara New Daggett
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781478005018
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0501-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Elements; Elements
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education