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A groundbreaking perspective on energy history that reveals the early modern home, and not industry, as the first major driver of fossil-fuel adoption.

This 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.

Bridging the histories of environments, material culture and consumption, Fossil Consumerism 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.

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• Plný název: Fossil Consumerism
• Podnázev: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries
• Autor: Wout Saelens
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 276
• EAN: 9789462705067
• ISBN: 9462705062
• ID: 51284191
• Nakladatelství: Leuven University Press
• Hmotnost: 392 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 156 × 15 mm
• Datum vydání: 10. February 2026

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