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Lifeblood : oil, freedom, and the forces of capital /

"If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don't we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits--Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire--Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huber, Matthew T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:Quadrant book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.