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1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations. |
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Elements
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Elements (Duke University Press)
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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"--Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Putting the world to work -- The birth of energy -- The novelty of energy -- A steampunk production -- A geo-theology of energy -- Work becomes energetic -- Energy, race, and empire -- Energopolitics -- The imperial organism at work -- Education for empire -- A post-work energy politics. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2019. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Power resources -- Economic aspects -- History.
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Power resources -- Economic aspects. |
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History. |
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Power resources. |
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Power resources -- Political aspects -- History.
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Power resources -- Political aspects. |
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Energy consumption -- History.
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Energy consumption. |
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Power resources -- History.
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Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects.
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Energy policy.
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Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects. |
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Energy industries.
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Energy policy. |
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Energy industries. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy. |
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Politische Wissenschaft. |
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Imperialismus. |
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Energiepolitik. |
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Thermodynamik. |
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Technischer Fortschritt. |
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Rassismus. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Daggett, Cara New, 1980- Birth of energy. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478005018 (DLC) 2019009526 (OCoLC)1073103263 |
| ISBN |
9781478006329 (electronic book) |
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1478006323 (electronic book) |
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1478005343 (electronic book) |
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9781478005346 (electronic book) |
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9781478005018 (hardcover) |
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1478005017 (hardcover) |
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