books.google.co.jp - How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people...http://books.google.co.jp/books/about/Consuming_Power_A_Social_History_of_Amer.html?hl=ja&id=5AHVmoXXidQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareConsuming Power: A Social History of American Energies