02196cam a2200301 4500 2718290940 TxAuBib 20260328120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781478005346 1478005343 B07WN8ZTRL Amazon 64900adb-9234-4669-b79f-4bde11a2fa09 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10694760 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Daggett, Cara New. The Birth of Energy [Libby eBook] : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work. Duke University Press, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:In <i>The Birth of Energy</i> Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work—most notably, the veneration of waged work—will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled. Nonfiction. Politics. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-27 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=64900adb-9234-4669-b79f-4bde11a2fa09&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=64900adb-9234-4669-b79f-4bde11a2fa09&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)