Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies

By David E. Nye

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262640384
• ISBN13: 9780262640381
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Turn On the Lights

This is a fabulous piece of social history -- deeply researched, insightful, and utterly lucid. It is among the best university-press books I can remember reading.

everyone in the energy field should read this

I thought this book was fascinating. I have been doing research on energy for a long time and this is one of the best books I have read. Nye examines the role that energy use has played in American society -- an important relationship that energy analysts have generally ignored. The book is very readable and well-researched, and always interesting.