University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor Jamie L. Jones (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor Jamie L. Jones

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University of Illinois English professor Jamie L. Jones examines the massive energy transition from whale oil to fossil fuels and the continuing influence of the dying industry of whaling in her new book “Rendered Obsolete: The Afterlife of U.S. Whaling in the Petroleum Age.”

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