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Author Johnson, Bob (Associate professor), author.

Title Mineral rites : an archaeology of the fossil economy / Bob Johnson.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Energy humanities
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Summary "The book discusses how the extraction of fossil fuels affects the rituals and artifacts of people's daily lives. The author asks readers to view fossil fuels as an intellectually intriguing topic rather than one better left to engineers. At the core of the book is the argument that energy consumption severs consumers from the production of carboniferous fuels and the waste they create. The book will interest scholars of American studies and environmental history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The mineral moment -- Mineral rites: the embodiment of fossil fuels -- Carbon's social history: a chunk of coal from the 1912 RMS Titanic -- Energy slaves: the technological imaginary of the fossil economy -- Fossilized mobility: a phenomenology of the modern road (with Lewis and Clark) -- Coal TV: the hyperreal mineral frontier -- Carbon culture: how to read a novel in light of climate change -- Carbon's temporality and the structure of feeling.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Energy consumption -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Energy consumption -- Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Energy consumption.
Fossil fuels -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Fossil fuels.
Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General.
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9781421427577 (electronic book)
1421427575 (electronic book)
9781421427560
1421427567

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