Carbon nation : fossil fuels in the making of American culture
Robert Johnson
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
| Utgitt | University Press of Kansas , c2014
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| Omfang | xxix, 230 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | "A close look at our nation's conflicted love affair with fossil fuels (including coal, oil, and natural gas) and their pervasive impact on American life and culture. While carbon has literally fueled a relentless technological progress and provided the highest standard of living the world has ever seen, it's also been the engine for environmental and human degradation, a blithe consumerism unaware of its carbon dependency, and dangerously large concentrations of wealth and power.Focusing on this longstanding contradiction, Johnson argues that our e- mbrace and celebration of carbon has been enabled by distancing ourselves from its costs"--. - Includes bibliographical references and index.. - Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity's Basement -- Part I: Divergence -- 1. A People of Prehistoric Carbon -- 2. Rocks and Bodies -- Part II: Submergence -- 3. An Upthrust into Barbarism -- 4. The Dynamo-Mother -- 5. A Faint Whiff of Gasoline -- Conclusion: A Return of the Repressed -- Appendix: Energy and Power -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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| Emner | Energy consumption - Social aspects History - United States
Energy industries - History - United States Fossil fuels - Social aspects History - United States HISTORY / Social History Vis mer... HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century United States - Civilization United States - Economic conditions United States - Environmental conditions fossil energi samfunnsutvikling kultur historie usa petrocultures |
| ISBN | 9780700620043
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