Cara New Daggett The Birth of Energy (Paperback) Elements (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Birth of EnergyCondition: NewEAN: 9781478006329ISBN: 9781478006329Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/13/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 363gAuthor: Cara New DaggettLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of WorkISBN-10: 1478006323Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: ElementsGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease 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

EAN: 9781478006329

ISBN: 9781478006329

Release Date: 09/13/2019

Release Year: 2019

Subtitle: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

ISBN-10: 1478006323

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Science Nature & Math

Number of Pages: 280 Pages

Publication Name: Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

Language: English

Publisher: Duke University Press

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2019

Subject: Public Policy / Energy Policy, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Power Resources / General, Industries / Energy, Public Policy / Environmental Policy

Item Weight: 12.8 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Cara New Daggett

Series: Elements Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback