Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to...
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Author: Jamie L. Jones
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Language: English
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Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling by Jones, Jamie L.

Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

¥10,518

Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

¥10,518
Author: Jamie L. Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations.

Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.



Author: Jamie L. Jones
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781469674827

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