{"product_id":"working-nature-daniela-russ-9781804298978","title":"Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA history of the energy economy from the perspective of critical theory\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorking Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that \"Energy\" is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature forged in capitalist industrialisation. The concept of energy mediates the appropriation of diverse natural forces - water, steam, coal, electricity - altering the way these forces would naturally behave to perform work in production. From the valuation of coal and crafting of the current to the formalization of the substitution of energy commodities, it asks how engineers, scientists and economists achieved the production and circulation of nature's work against social and natural resistance. In so doing, they undermined the very purpose of the energy economy - to emancipate humanity from nature. Can there be a human reconciliation with nature's resistance for our time?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniela Russ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1804298972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804298978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Daniela Russ","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014233567487,"sku":"9781804298978","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_001acead-88c1-4b43-a440-06969ca8998e.jpg?v=1767747520","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/working-nature-daniela-russ-9781804298978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}