LEADER 05401oam 22006494a 450 001 9910861077103321 005 20210113125926.0 010 $a0-7006-2581-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000008779802 035 $a(OCoLC)1132661763 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5836646 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5836646 035 $a(OCoLC)1110488248 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31274623 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31274623 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008779802 100 $a20140801d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCarbon Nation$b[electronic resource] $eFossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture /$fBob Johnson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLawrence, Kansas $cUniversity Press of Kansas$d[2014] 215 $a1 online resource (xxix, 230 pages :)$cillustrations ; 225 0 $aCultureAmerica 311 $a0-7006-2520-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity's Basement -- Part I: Divergence -- 1. A People of Prehistoric Carbon -- 2. Rocks and Bodies -- Part II: Submergence -- 3. An Upthrust into Barbarism -- 4. The Dynamo-Mother -- 5. A Faint Whiff of Gasoline -- Conclusion: A Return of the Repressed -- Appendix: Energy and Power -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"A close look at our nation's conflicted love affair with fossil fuels (including coal, oil, and natural gas) and their pervasive impact on American life and culture. While carbon has literally fueled a relentless technological progress and provided the highest standard of living the world has ever seen, it's also been the engine for environmental and human degradation, a blithe consumerism unaware of its carbon dependency, and dangerously large concentrations of wealth and power. Focusing on this longstanding contradiction, Johnson argues that our embrace and celebration of carbon has been enabled by distancing ourselves from its costs"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Fossil fuels don't simply impact our ability to commute to and from work. They condition our sensory lives, our erotic experiences, and our aesthetics; they structure what we assume to be normal and healthy; and they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature that allows populations and economies to grow wildly beyond the older and more clearly understood limits of the organic economy. Carbon Nation ranges across film and literary studies, ecology, politics, journalism, and art history to chart the course by which prehistoric carbon calories entered into the American economy and body. It reveals how fossil fuels remade our ways of being, knowing, and sensing in the world while examining how different classes, races, sexes, and conditions learned to embrace and navigate the material manifestations and cultural potential of these new prehistoric carbons. The ecological roots of modern America are introduced in the first half of the book where the author shows how fossil fuels revolutionized the nation's material wealth and carrying capacity. The book then demonstrates how this eager embrace of fossil fuels went hand in hand with both a deliberate and an unconscious suppression of that dependency across social, spatial, symbolic, and psychic domains. In the works of Eugene O'Neill, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, and Stephen Crane, the author reveals how Americans' material dependencies on prehistoric carbon were systematically buried within modernist narratives of progress, consumption, and unbridled growth; while in films like Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and George Stevens's Giant he uncovers cinematic expressions of our own deep-seated anxieties about living in a dizzying new world wrought by fossil fuels. Any discussion of fossil fuels must go beyond energy policy and technology. In Carbon Nation, Bob Johnson reminds us that what we take to be natural in the modern world is, in fact, historical, and that our history and culture arise from this relatively recent embrace of the coal mine, the stoke hole, and the oil derrick. "--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aCultureAmerica Series 606 $aHISTORY / Social History$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aEnergy industries$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEnergy consumption$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aFossil fuels$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization 607 $aUnited States$xEnvironmental conditions 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions 615 7$aHISTORY / Social History. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. 615 0$aEnergy industries$xHistory. 615 0$aEnergy consumption$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aFossil fuels$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 676 $a306.30973 700 $aJohnson$b Bob$c(Associate professor)$01740396 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910861077103321 996 $aCarbon Nation$94166060 997 $aUNINA