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

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

Anson Rabinbach

432 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature—even human nature—under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art emp...

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