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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Main Author: Daggett, Cara New (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2019
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