{"product_id":"carbon-nation-fossil-fuels-in-the-making-of-american-culture-paperback-softback-9780700625208","title":"Carbon Nation; Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780700625208","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCarbon Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBob Johnson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780700625208\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 July 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Johnson has crafted a unique and exciting interdisciplinary treatise on the concept of energy in American life that profoundly informs our understanding of the basic cultural patterns of twentieth-century living. His writing style is spry and intelligent, while his insights are provocative and terribly important and should inspire scholars in a number of fields.\"\" - Brian Black, author of \u003ci\u003eCrude Reality: Petroleum in World History and Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bob Johnson examines the shift away from renewable energy to fossil fuels during the century before the energy crisis of the 1970s, and he explores the ambivalent cultural consequences of that transformation, as Americans sought to ignore its environmental costs as they embraced a narrative of technological empowerment\" - David E. Nye, author of \u003ci\u003eTechnology Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Armed with a dazzling array of facts and the insights of cultural criticism, Bob Johnson probes the subsoil ecology of the modern self, those psychic and material traumas that comprise the deepest collateral damage of our now international carbon economy.\" - Stephanie LeMenager, author of \u003ci\u003eLiving Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFossil fuels don’t simply impact our ability to commute to and from work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey condition our sensory lives, our erotic experiences, and our aesthetics; they structure what we assume to be normal and healthy; and they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature that allows populations and economies to grow wildly beyond the older and more clearly understood limits of the organic economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarbon Nation\u003c\/i\u003e ranges across film and literary studies, ecology, politics, journalism, and art history to chart the course by which prehistoric carbon calories entered into the American economy and body. It reveals how fossil fuels remade our ways of being, knowing, and sensing in the world while examining how different classes, races, sexes, and conditions learned to embrace and navigate the material manifestations and cultural potential of these new prehistoric carbons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ecological roots of modern America are introduced in the first half of the book where the author shows how fossil fuels revolutionized the nation’s material wealth and carrying capacity. The book then demonstrates how this eager embrace of fossil fuels went hand in hand with both a deliberate and an unconscious suppression of that dependency across social, spatial, symbolic, an psychic domains. In the works of Eugene O’Neill, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, and Stephen Crane, the author reveals how Americans’ material dependencies on prehistoric carbon were systematically buried within modernist narratives of progress, consumption, and unbridled growth; while in films like Charlie Chaplin’’s \u003ci\u003eModern Times\u003c\/i\u003e and George Steven’s \u003ci\u003eGiant\u003c\/i\u003e he uncovers cinematic expressions of our own deep-seated anxieties about living in a dizzying new world wrought by fossil fuels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAny discussion of fossil fuels must go beyond energy policy and technology. In \u003ci\u003eCarbon Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, Bob Johnson reminds us that what we take to be natural in the modern world is, in fact, historical, and that our history and culture arise from this relatively recent embrace of the coal mine, the stoke hole, and the oil derrick.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Modernity'\u003cbr\u003es Basement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Divergence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. A People of Prehistoric Carbon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Rocks and Bodies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Submergence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. An Upthrust into Barbarism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Dynamo-Mother \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. A Faint Whiff of Gasoline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: A Return of the Repressed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Energy and Power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530995233048,"sku":"9780700625208","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/carbon-nation-fossil-fuels-in-the-making-of-american-culture-paperback-softback-9780700625208","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}