Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Underground Whales: An Energy Archaeology -- Part 1. Loomings -- 1. Built-In Obsolescence: Energy and Limits to Growth in the Whaling World of Moby-Dick -- Part 2. Whaling Entertainment -- 2. The Invention of Quaintness: Nantucket Tourism and the Logics of Energy and Exhaustion -- 3. Pioneer Inland Whaling: A Whale on a Train, a Ship Called Progress, and the Transformation of Whaling Culture in the Inland United States -- Part 3. Whaling Nostalgia -- 4. Extinction Burst: White Supremacy and Yankee Whaling Heritage at the End of the Industry -- 5. Nostalgia for the Wooden World: Energy, the Melville Revival, and Rockwell Kent's Moby-Dick -- Epilogue. The Bone in Our Teeth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.