Petrolia The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom

Name: Petrolia The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
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ISBN: 9780801877322

ISBN-10: 0801877326

ISBN-13: 9780801877322

Edition: 2000

Authors: Brian Black

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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…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Persistence of Oil on the Brain



"A Good Time Coming for Whales"



"A Triumph of Individualism"



The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia



Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus



"What Nature Intended This Place Should Be"



Pithole: Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City"



Delusions of Permanence


Epilogue: The Legacy of Petrolia


Appendix


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