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Consuming Power - A Social History of American Energies (Paperback, Revised)
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Consuming Power - A Social History of American Energies (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The MIT Press
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Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary
people engaged in normal activities. How did the United States
become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that
this is less a question about the development of technology than it
is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power,
Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary
people engaged in normal activities. He looks at how these
activities changed as new energy systems were constructed, from
colonial times to recent years. He also shows how, as Americans
incorporated new machines and processes into their lives, they
became ensnared in power systems that were not easily changed: they
made choices about the conduct of their lives, and those choices
accumulated to produce a consuming culture. Nye examines a sequence
of large systems that acquired and then lost technological momentum
over the course of American history, including water power, steam
power, electricity, the internal-combustion engine, atomic power,
and computerization. He shows how each system became part of a
larger set of social constructions through its links to the home,
the factory, and the city. The result is a social history of
America as seen through the lens of energy consumption.
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