Lifeblood Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital

Name: Lifeblood Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
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ISBN: 9780816677856

ISBN-10: 0816677859

ISBN-13: 9780816677856

Edition: 2013

Authors: Matthew T. Huber

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If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don’t we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits—Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire—Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices, Matthew T. Huber suggests, have in fact been instrumental in shaping the broader cultural politics of American capitalism.How did gasoline and countless other petroleum products become so central to our notions of the American way of life? Huber traces the answer from the 1930s through the oil shocks of the 1970s to our present predicament, revealing that oil’s role in defining popular culture extends far…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 8/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Introduction: Oil, Life, Politics



The Power of Oil? Energy, Machines, and the Forces of Capital



Refueling Capitalism: Depression, Oil, and the Making of "the American Way of Life"



Fractionated Lives: Refineries and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life



Shocked! "Energy Crisis," Neoliberalism, and the Construction of an Apolitical Economy



Pain at the Pump: Gas Prices, Life, and Death under Neoliberalism


Conclusion: Energizing Freedom


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index