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Autore |
Black Brian <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom / / Brian Black |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Collana |
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Creating the North American landscape |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Petroleum - Pennsylvania - Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County) - History |
Petroleum industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County) - History |
Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.) Environmental conditions History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-225) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Persistence of Oil on the Brain -- Chapter One "A Good Time Coming for Whales" -- Chapter Two "A Triumph of Individualism" -- Chapter Three The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia -- Chapter Four Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus -- Chapter Five What Nature Intended This Place Should Be" -- Chapter Six Pithole: Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City" -- Chapter Seven Delusions of Permanence -- Epilogue The Legacy of Petrolia -- Appendix Oil Boom Towns with Post Offices of Petrolia, Listing Years of Operation -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation. |
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