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...

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Author / Creator: Daggett, Cara New, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Elements (Duke University Press)
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