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 | #406632 in Books |  1999-02-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.69 x6.00l,1.22 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent overview|By Semper Grumpy|Rating the first book one has read on a subject is always a speculative venture one has nothing to compare it with. That said, Consuming Power is a very engaging read and covers a wide range of technical and social issues that gave rise to power systems in the US, contrasting our choices with the UK to make the case that, indeed, our systems|From Library Journal|Despite the double-entendre in its title, this work focuses less on the history of America's consumption of energy than on its sheer consumption, conspicuous and incorrigible. Nye (American studies, Odense Univ., Denmark; American Technologi

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 h...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies   |  David E. Nye. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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