Johnson, Robert,  1967- <br/><br/>
Carbon nation :  fossil fuels in the making of American culture / 
Bob Johnson. 
 - xxix, 230 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - CultureAmerica .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780700620043 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014026653 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fossil fuels--Social aspects--History.--United States<br/>Energy consumption--Social aspects--History.--United States<br/>Energy industries--History.--United States<br/>HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.<br/>HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.<br/>HISTORY / Social History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Economic conditions.<br/>United States--Environmental conditions.<br/>United States--Civilization.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9502.U52  / J653 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.30973