The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

by Anson Rabinbach (Author)

Synopsis

Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08 Jan 1992

ISBN 10: 0520078276
ISBN 13: 9780520078277