Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Birth of EnergyCondition: NewSubtitle: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of WorkISBN-10: 1478005017EAN: 9781478005018ISBN: 9781478005018Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/13/2019Description: In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work—most notably, the veneration of waged work—will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 522gAuthor: Cara New DaggettGenre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: ElementsRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Birth of Energy
Title: The Birth of Energy
Subtitle: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
ISBN-10: 1478005017
EAN: 9781478005018
ISBN: 9781478005018
Release Date: 09/13/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Public Policy / Energy Policy, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Industries / Energy, Power Resources / General, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Cara New Daggett
Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Width: 7.4 in
Series: Elements Ser.
Format: Hardcover
