Consuming Power
Title | Consuming Power PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Nye |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 1999-02-18 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0262261022 |
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.
Consuming Power
Title | Consuming Power PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Nye |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1999-02-18 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780262640381 |
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.
Industrial Depressions
Title | Industrial Depressions PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Labor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Cost and standard of living |
ISBN |
An All-consuming Century
Title | An All-consuming Century PDF eBook |
Author | Gary S. Cross |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780231113120 |
The victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been home to the most aggressive and thoughtful critics of consumption such as Puritanism and Prohibition. This work offers a history of how market forces came to dominate American life.
The Parliamentary Debates (official Report).
Title | The Parliamentary Debates (official Report). PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1366 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the 1st session of the 48th Parliament.
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).
Title | Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1368 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.
Report of the Secretary
Title | Report of the Secretary PDF eBook |
Author | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture |
Publisher | |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |