Rendered obsolete : energy culture and the afterlife of US whaling /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones, Jamie L. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Moby Dick. Moby Dick (Melville, Herman) Whaling > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Whaling > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Whaling > United States > In popular culture. Whale oil > United States > History. Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > United States. Petroleum industry and trade > Environmental aspects > United States. Power resources > Social aspects > United States. Power resources > Environmental aspects > United States. White nationalism > United States > History. Baleines > Chasse > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle. Baleines > Chasse > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. Huile de baleine > États-Unis > Histoire. Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect social > États-Unis. Ressources énergétiques > Aspect social > États-Unis. Ressources énergétiques > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis. Nationalisme blanc > États-Unis > Histoire. Petroleum industry and trade > Environmental aspects Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects Power resources > Environmental aspects Power resources > Social aspects Whale oil Whaling > Social aspects White nationalism United States Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Underground whales: an energy archaeology
Built-in obsolescence: energy and limits to growth in the whaling world of Moby-Dick
The invention of quaintness: Nantucket tourism and the logics of energy and exhaustion
Pioneer inland whaling: a whale on a train, a ship called Progress, and the transformation of whaling culture in the inland United States
Extinction burst: white supremacy and Yankee whaling heritage at the end of the industry
Nostalgia for the wooden world: energy, the Melville revival, and Rockwell Kent's Moby-Dick
The bone in our teeth.