{"product_id":"fossil-consumerism-wout-saelens-9789462705067","title":"Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking perspective on energy history that reveals the early modern home, and not industry, as the first major driver of fossil-fuel adoption.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how the homes of ordinary city dwellers sparked our modern dependence on fossil fuels. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, including probate inventories, household manuals, personal journals, medical treatises and contemporary artwork, it reveals how households in the early modern Low Countries embraced peat and coal to fuel new standards of warmth, light and domesticity. Yet, with these new home comforts came rising indoor pollution, intensified and gendered housework and, ultimately, a quiet shift in humanity's relationship with nature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBridging the histories of environments, material culture and consumption, \u003ci\u003eFossil Consumerism\u003c\/i\u003e offers a reinterpretation of the historical roots of global warming, finding these not in the industrial mill, but in the intimate, overlooked spaces of the home. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the everyday origins of the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wout Saelens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9462705062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789462705067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d","brand":"Wout Saelens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48242099912959,"sku":"9789462705067","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee600f17-bc03-4155-a99f-964e0fc47c44.jpg?v=1772657523","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fossil-consumerism-wout-saelens-9789462705067","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}