Lifeblood : oil, freedom, and the forces of capital / Matthew T. Huber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huber, Matthew T.

Series:

Quadrant book

A quadrant book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--United States.

Petroleum industry and trade.

United States.

Energy policy--United States.

Energy policy.

Capitalism--United States.

Capitalism.

Free enterprise--United States.

Free enterprise.

Physical Description:

xxi, 253 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Summary:

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. Matthew T. Huber Suggests Those Practices Have Been Instrumental in Shaping the Broader Cultural Politics of Capitalism In the United States. He Uses Oil to Retell American Political History from the Triumph of New Deal Liberalism to the Rise of the New Right, from Oil's Celebration as the Lifeblood of Postwar Capitalism to Increasing Anxieties Over Oil Addiction. Lifeblood Rethinks Debates Surrounding Energy and Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Nature, and the Importance of Suburbanization in the Country's Rightward Political Shift. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"A quadrant book"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816677849

0816677840

9780816677856

0816677859

OCLC:

840465534