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.

Energy policy--United States.

Capitalism--United States.

Free enterprise--United States.

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

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8166-8593-2