Petrolia
The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
Seiten
2000
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6317-2 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6317-2 (ISBN)
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.
Brian Black is an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College, and editor of Pennsylvania History.
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Persistence of Oil on the Brain
Chapter 1. "A Good Time Coming for Whales"
Chapter 2. "A Triumph of Individualism"
Chapter 3. The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia
Chapter 4. Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus
Chapter 5. "What Nature Intended This Place Should Be"
Chapter 6. Pithole: Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City"
Chapter 7. Delusions of Permanence
Epilogue. The Legacy of Petrolia
Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.8.2000 |
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Reihe/Serie | Creating the North American Landscape |
Zusatzinfo | 52 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 539 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8018-6317-1 / 0801863171 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-6317-2 / 9780801863172 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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