The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity - Anson Rabinbach - Books - University of California Press - 9780520078277 - January 8, 1992
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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

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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.


432 pages, 26 b&w illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 8, 1992
ISBN13 9780520078277
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 432
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 27 mm   ·   664 g
Language English  

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