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Title:
Lifeblood : oil, freedom, and the forces of capital / Matthew T. Huber.
Author:
Huber, Matthew T.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Call Number:
HD9565 .H83 2013
Abstract:
"Looking beyond the usual culprits, Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Matthew T. Huber uses oil to retell American political history from the triumph of New Deal liberalism to the rise of the New Right, from oil's celebration as the lifeblood of postwar capitalism to increasing anxieties over oil addiction." -- Publisher's description.
ISBN:
9780816677849

9780816677856
Physical Description:
xxi, 253 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
"A quadrant book."
Contents:
The power of oil? energy, machines, and the forces of capital -- Refueling capitalism : depression, oil, and the making of "the American way of life" -- Fractionated lives : refineries and the ecology of entrepreneurial life -- Shocked! "energy crisis," neoliberalism, and the construction of an apolitical economy -- Pain at the pump : gas prices, life, and death under neoliberalism -- Conclusion : energizing freedom.
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