The Birth of Energy Fossil fuels, thermodynamics and the politics of work

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 In...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2019
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