Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America

by Caleb Wellum

How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.

In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the decade's "oil shocks," Wellum unpacks the cultural construction of a crisis of energy across different sectors of society, from presidents, policy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421447185
• ISBN13: 9781421447186
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher