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Carbon nation : fossil fuels in the making of American culture / Bob Johnson.

By: Series: CultureAmericaPublisher: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2014]Description: xxix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780700620043
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.30973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9502.U52 J653 2014
Other classification:
  • HIS036060 | HIS036040 | HIS054000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity's Basement -- Part I: Divergence -- 1. A People of Prehistoric Carbon -- 2. Rocks and Bodies -- Part II: Submergence -- 3. An Upthrust into Barbarism -- 4. The Dynamo-Mother -- 5. A Faint Whiff of Gasoline -- Conclusion: A Return of the Repressed -- Appendix: Energy and Power -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "A close look at our nation's conflicted love affair with fossil fuels (including coal, oil, and natural gas) and their pervasive impact on American life and culture. While carbon has literally fueled a relentless technological progress and provided the highest standard of living the world has ever seen, it's also been the engine for environmental and human degradation, a blithe consumerism unaware of its carbon dependency, and dangerously large concentrations of wealth and power. Focusing on this longstanding contradiction, Johnson argues that our embrace and celebration of carbon has been enabled by distancing ourselves from its costs"-- Provided by publisher.

"A close look at our nation's conflicted love affair with fossil fuels (including coal, oil, and natural gas) and their pervasive impact on American life and culture. While carbon has literally fueled a relentless technological progress and provided the highest standard of living the world has ever seen, it's also been the engine for environmental and human degradation, a blithe consumerism unaware of its carbon dependency, and dangerously large concentrations of wealth and power. Focusing on this longstanding contradiction, Johnson argues that our embrace and celebration of carbon has been enabled by distancing ourselves from its costs"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity's Basement -- Part I: Divergence -- 1. A People of Prehistoric Carbon -- 2. Rocks and Bodies -- Part II: Submergence -- 3. An Upthrust into Barbarism -- 4. The Dynamo-Mother -- 5. A Faint Whiff of Gasoline -- Conclusion: A Return of the Repressed -- Appendix: Energy and Power -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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