Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture (CultureAmerica)

by Bob Johnson

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Fossil fuels power our cars, our food supply, our climate-controlled homes, our work, and our play. That much we know. What we understand less, and what this book makes clear, is how fossil fuels also condition Americans' sensory lives, erotic experiences, and aesthetics; how they structure what we assume to be normal and healthy; and how they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature that allows populations and economies to grow wildly beyond the previously understood limits of the organic economy. Carbon Nation ranges across film and literary studies, journalism, politics, art history, and ecology, to chart the...Read more
  • ISBN10 070062581X
  • ISBN13 9780700625819
  • Publish Date 30 April 2019 (first published 5 December 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint University Press of Kansas
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 264
  • Language English