Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital (A Quadrant Book)
Lifebloodoffers a radically alternative way of thinking about ‘cheap oil’ and ‘oil addiction’ and in so doing peers beneath the liquid surfaces of petroleum to see how the long century of American oil consumption has been central to the rise of American neoliberalism itself. An original and masterful account of oil in contemporary American capitalism.—Michael Watts, University of California, BerkeleyCompellingly presented and enlivened by fascinating archival research, Huber’s arguments about the ‘ecology of politics’ and the centrality of oil to the making of ‘entrepreneurial life’ are important and intriguing.—Gavin Bridge, Durham University