Subtitle Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

EAN/ISBN

978-1478006329

Release Date

2019-9-13

Author(s)

Cara Daggett

Summary

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.