The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Cara New Daggett

The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

Cara New Daggett

280 pages • hardcover • 2019

3 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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-bas...

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