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This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West. Thompson explains the problems that the rising cost of oil posed in the years leading up to the 2008 crash, and the difficulties that a volatile oil market now poses to economic recovery under the conditions of high debt, low growth and quantitative easing. The author argues that the 'Gordian knot' created by the economic and political dynamics of supply and demand oil in the present international economy poses a fundamental challenge to the assumption of economic progress embedded in Western democratic expectations.

Political science. --- Fossil fuels. --- Business logistics. --- Political economy. --- United States --- Macroeconomics. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political Economy. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- US Politics. --- Supply Chain Management. --- Politics and government. --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects. --- United States-Politics and gover. --- International Political Economy. --- Supply chain management --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Economics --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- United States—Politics and government. --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals

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Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson shows how these writers confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and naturally subject wives. Over the long eighteenth century, Thompson argues, domestic novelists appropriated the standard of political modernity advanced by John Locke and others as a citizen's free or "ingenuous" assent to the law. The domestic novel figures feminine political difference not as women's deviation from an abstract universal but rather as their failure freely or ingenuously to submit to the power retained by Enlightenment husbands.Ingenuous Subjection claims domestic novelists as vital participants in Enlightenment political discourse. By tracing the political, philosophical, and generic significance of feminine compliance, this book revises our literary historical account of the rise of the novel. Rather than imagining a realm of harmonious sentiment, domestic fiction represents the persistent arbitrariness of eighteenth-century men's conjugal power. Ingenuous Subjection revises feminist theory and historiography, locating the genealogy of feminism in a contractual model of ingenuous assent which challenges the legitimacy of masculine conjugal government. The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous Subjection recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.

English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Domestic fiction, English --- Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Families in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Literature --- Family in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- History --- Women authors --- Literature and feminism --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.

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"Explains why we in the West, live in the political times we do; a moment of historical time arising from systemic dynamics that have wrought predicaments to confront and not problems to be solved. A retrospective and predictive account of the political shocks of 2016 and onwards, and how the specific consequences of the structural historical forces at work are ongoing and in good part inexorable. Argues that these political times arise and disruption will continue from the intersection of fault lines generated by a geopolitical cycle that has been disrupted, but is not over"--Publisher's description.

Geopolitics --- Western countries - Politics and government - 21st century --- Western countries - Economic conditions - 21st century --- Western countries --- Occident --- West (Western countries) --- Western nations --- Western world --- Developed countries --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- World politics --- International economic relations --- BPB9999 --- geopolitiek --- internationale economie --- democrație --- fossiele brandstof --- energiebeleid --- BPB2211 --- international økonomi --- maailmamajandus --- svjetska ekonomija --- svetovno gospodarstvo --- ekonomi botërore --- internationell ekonomi --- internationale Wirtschaft --- διεθνής οικονομία --- svetové hospodárstvo --- economía internacional --- geilleagar an domhain --- pasaules ekonomika --- ekonomija dinjija --- economie mondială --- économie internationale --- světová ekonomika --- международна икономика --- светска економија --- economia internazionale --- világgazdaság --- world economy --- kansainvälinen talous --- pasaulio ekonomika --- светска привреда --- gospodarka światowa --- economia internacional --- economía mundial --- economia mundial --- economie internațională --- παγκόσμια οικονομία --- économie mondiale --- wereldeconomie --- global ekonomi --- globalna ekonomija --- ekonomi ndërkombëtare --- světové hospodářství --- глобална економија --- rahvusvaheline majandus --- starptautiskā ekonomika --- svjetsko gospodarstvo --- nemzetközi gazdaság --- mezinárodní hospodářství --- verdensøkonomi --- globální ekonomika --- economia mondiale --- tarptautinė ekonomika --- Weltwirtschaft --- världsekonomi --- medzinárodné hospodárstvo --- international economy --- меѓународна економија --- geopolityka --- ġeopolitika --- geopoliitika --- geopolitika --- Geopolitik --- géopolitique --- geopolitik --- геополитика --- geopolitica --- geopolitică --- geopolítica --- γεωπολιτική --- geopolitics --- gjeopolitikë --- geopholaitíocht --- ģeopolitika --- geopolitiikka --- energetická politika --- energetikos politika --- politique énergétique --- energetska politika --- energiapoliitika --- energiapolitiikka --- енергийна политика --- politika tal-enerġija --- ενεργειακή πολιτική --- política energética --- Energiepolitik --- politica energetica --- energiapolitika --- energipolitik --- enerģētikas politika --- politică energetică --- politikë energjetike --- energy policy --- енергетска политика --- polityka energetyczna --- beartas fuinnimh --- strategia energetica --- obiettivo energetico --- политика за енергетика --- politica energetica nazionale --- мерки за енергетска ефикасност --- atomprogram --- opzione energetica --- atompolitik --- politica dell'energia --- piano energetico --- енергетска стратегија --- sviluppo energetico --- degizraktenis --- фосилно гориво --- fjuwil fossili --- fosilní palivo --- fosílne palivo --- fossil fuel --- iškastinis kuras --- fossiilinen polttoaine --- combustibile fossile --- fossiilkütus --- fosilno gorivo --- combustibil fosil --- fossilt bränsle --- combustible fósil --- breosla iontaise --- fossiler Brennstoff --- paliwo kopalne --- изкопаемо гориво --- fosszilis tüzelőanyag --- karburant fosil --- ορυκτά καύσιμα --- fossilt brændsel --- combustible fossile --- combustível fóssil --- οργανικά καύσιμα --- ürgkütus --- karburant fossili --- δημοκρατία --- demokrácia --- demokrātija --- democracia --- demokraatia --- democrazia --- demokracija --- démocratie --- demokratija --- daonlathas --- democracy --- demokratia --- demokracie --- demokracja --- demokrati --- demokraci --- demokracia --- Demokratie --- demokrazija --- демокрация --- демократија --- politický pluralizmus --- pluralizm polityczny --- πολιτικός πλουραλισμός --- folkstyre --- folkestyre --- politiek pluralisme --- politischer Pluralismus --- politiskais plurālisms --- demokrātiska vienlīdzība --- politikai pluralizmus --- égalité démocratique --- politický pluralismus --- ugwaljanza demokratika --- pluraliżmu politiku --- barazi demokratike --- pluralismo político --- politinis pliuralizmas --- politisk jämlikhet --- демократична равнопоставеност --- igualdad democrática --- democratische gelijkheid --- demokratische Gleichheit --- δημοκρατικό πολίτευμα --- demokraattinen yhdenvertaisuus --- poliittinen pluralismi --- demokratična enakost --- democratic equality --- demokratikus egyenlőség --- pluralisme politique --- politisk mångfald --- demokraatlik võrdsus --- igualdade democrática --- politisk pluralism --- ludowładztwo --- политически плурализъм --- politisk pluralisme --- pluralism politic --- pluralismo politico --- pluralizëm politik --- demokratická rovnost --- politički pluralizam --- uguaglianza democratica --- politični pluralizem --- egalitate democratică --- demokratická rovnosť --- political pluralism --- poliitiline pluralism --- demokratinė lygybė --- политички плурализам --- democrație

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In a groundbreaking study of the relationship between chemistry and literary history, Helen Thompson explores the ways in which chemical conceptions of matter shaped eighteenth-century British culture. Although the scientific revolution championed experimental, sense-based knowledge, chemists claimed that perceptible bodies were made of invisible particles or "corpuscles." Neither modern elements nor classical atoms, corpuscles were reactive, divisible units of matter. Imperceptible but real, the corpuscle transformed empirical knowledge in early modern science and the novel. Thompson offers new analyses of the chemistry, alchemy, color theory, physiology, environmental science, and medicine pioneered by Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hales, John Mitchell, John Arbuthnot, and Thomas Sydenham to argue that they shaped cultural conceptions of racial, class, sex, and species identity. Juxtaposing science with readings of novels by Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, William Rufus Chetwood, and Penelope Aubin, she shows how, at the level of form as well as character, novels represent perceptual knowledge that refers not to innate essence but to dynamic and unstable relations. The realist narrative mode that experimental science bequeaths to literary history, Fictional Matter argues, does not transparently mirror perceptible objects. Instead, novels represent the forms and relations through which imperceptible particles stimulate sensory experience. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular chemistry, Thompson advances a new account of the influence of experimental science and empirical knowledge on the emergent realist novel.

English fiction --- Chemistry --- Literature and science --- Empiricism in literature. --- Chemistry in literature. --- Science --- History and criticism. --- History

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