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Lifeblood : oil, freedom, and the forces of capital
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huber, Matthew T., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum industry and trade--United States.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Energy policy--United States.
- Energy policy.
- Capitalism--United States.
- Capitalism.
- Free enterprise--United States.
- Free enterprise.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Press 2013
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking beyond the usual culprits, Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Matthew T. Huber 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Oil, Life, Politics
- 1 The Power of Oil? Energy, Machines, and the Forces of Capital
- 2 Refueling Capitalism: Depression, Oil, and the Making of "the American Way of Life"
- 3 Fractionated Lives: Refineries and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life
- 4 Shocked! "Energy Crisis," Neoliberalism, and the Construction of an Apolitical Economy
- 5 Pain at the Pump: Gas Prices, Life, and Death under Neoliberalism
- Conclusion: Energizing Freedom
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8593-2
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