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Paperback The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work Book

ISBN: 1478006323

ISBN13: 9781478006329

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

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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...

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