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Rendered obsolete energy culture and the afterlife of US whaling /
"Through the mid-nineteenth century, the United States whaling industry drove industrialization and urbanization, offering ways to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Underground Whales: An Energy Archaeology
- Part 1. Loomings
- 1. Built-In Obsolescence: Energy and Limits to Growth in the Whaling World of Moby-Dick
- Part 2. Whaling Entertainment
- 2. The Invention of Quaintness: Nantucket Tourism and the Logics of Energy and Exhaustion
- 3. Pioneer Inland Whaling: A Whale on a Train, a Ship Called Progress, and the Transformation of Whaling Culture in the Inland United States
- Part 3. Whaling Nostalgia
- 4. Extinction Burst: White Supremacy and Yankee Whaling Heritage at the End of the Industry
- 5. Nostalgia for the Wooden World: Energy, the Melville Revival, and Rockwell Kent's Moby-Dick
- Epilogue. The Bone in Our Teeth