Petrolia

Name: Petrolia
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9780801877322
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The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom

Autor: Brian Black

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Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press

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In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the...

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Autor

Brian Black

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2004

Pagini

256

EAN

9780801877322

ISBN

0801877326

Enbook ID

04709366

Editura

Johns Hopkins University Press

Greutate

499

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 15

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In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black describes Oil Creek Valley's descent into environmental hell. Known as "Petrolia," the region charged the popular imagination with its nearly overnight transition from agriculture to industry. But so unrestrained were these early efforts at oil drilling, Black writes, that "the landscape came to be viewed only as an instrument out of which one could extract crude." In a very short time, Petrolia was a ruined place-environmentally, economically, and to some extent even culturally. Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.

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