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Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital

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Description for Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital Paperback. Series: Quadrant Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, 27 black and white illustrations and 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPQB; KN; RND; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.

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, ... Read more

Lifeblood rethinks debates surrounding energy and capitalism, neoliberalism and nature, and the importance of suburbanization in the rightward shift in American politics. Today, Huber tells us, as crises attributable to oil intensify, a populist clamoring for cheap energy has less to do with American excess than with the eroding conditions of life under neoliberalism.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Quadrant Book
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816677856
SKU
V9780816677856
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Matthew T. Huber
Matthew T. Huber is assistant professor of geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

Reviews for Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
"Lifeblood offers a radically alternative way of thinking about ‘cheap oil’ and ‘oil addiction’ and in so doing peers beneath the liquid surfaces of petroleum to see how the long century of American oil consumption has been central to the rise of American neoliberalism itself. An original and masterful account of oil in contemporary American capitalism."—Michael Watts, University of California, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital


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