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Carbon nation : fossil fuels in the making of American culture / Bob Johnson.

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"Fossil fuels don't simply impact our ability to commute to and from work. They condition our sensory lives, our erotic experiences, and our aesthetics; they structure what we assume to be normal and healthy; and they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature that allows populations...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Johnson, Bob (Associate professor) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2014]
Series:Culture America.
Subjects:
Fossil fuels > Social aspects > United States > History.
Energy consumption > Social aspects > United States > History.
Energy industries > United States > History.
United States > Economic conditions.
United States > Environmental conditions.
United States > Civilization.
Civilization.
Ecology.
Economic history.
Energy consumption > Social aspects.
Energy industries.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Modernity's basement
  • pt. I. Divergence : A people of prehistoric carbon ; Rocks and bodies
  • pt. II. Submergence : An upthrust into barbarism ; The dynamo-mother ; A faint whiff of gasoline
  • Conclusion : A return of the repressed
  • Appendix : Energy and power.

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