Petrolia: the landscape of America's first oil boom

"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 changes in attitudes toward consumption and the growing d...

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1. Verfasser: Black, Brian C. 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 2000
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Zusammenfassung:"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 changes in attitudes toward consumption and 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."--BOOK JACKET
Beschreibung:xii, 235 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:0801863171

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