How Long to Read Rendered Obsolete

How Long Does it Take to Read Rendered Obsolete?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Rendered Obsolete by Jamie L. Jones

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.

How long is Rendered Obsolete?

Rendered Obsolete by Jamie L. Jones is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rendered Obsolete Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Rendered Obsolete aloud.

What Reading Level is Rendered Obsolete?

Rendered Obsolete is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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