The birth of energy : fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Daggett, Cara New, 1980- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2019
Durham ; London : 2019.
Series:Elements (Duke University Press)
Subjects:
Power resources > Economic aspects > History.
Power resources > Political aspects > History.
Energy consumption > Environmental aspects.
Power resources > History.
Energy consumption > History.
Energy policy.
Energy industries.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423715406719

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