04152nam 2200673Ia 450 991080737250332120200520144314.00-674-01841-997806740371820-674-03718-910.4159/9780674037182(CKB)1000000000786950(EBL)3300112(SSID)ssj0000214233(PQKBManifestationID)11172281(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214233(PQKBWorkID)10167389(PQKB)11770231(MiAaPQ)EBC3300112(MiAaPQ)EBC3300388(DE-B1597)584848(DE-B1597)9780674037182(MiAaPQ)EBC30166345(Au-PeEL)EBL30166345(dli)HEB32470(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000562(OCoLC)1322124420(EXLCZ)99100000000078695020050426d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOil empire visions of prosperity in Austrian Galicia /Alison Fleig Frank1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20051 online resource (366 p.)Harvard Historical Studies ;149Description based upon print version of record.0-674-01887-7 0-674-02541-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-318) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- Abbreviations -- Map: The Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867–1914 -- Introduction -- 1 The Land Where Salt and Oil Flowed: Austrian Galicia -- 2 Galician California: Battles for Land and Mineral Rights -- 3 Petroleum Fever: Foreign Entrepreneurs and a New National Industry -- 4 The Boys Don’t Sleep at Home: Workers’ Dreams of Wealth and Independence -- 5 Oil City: The Epidemic of Overproduction -- 6 Blood of the Earth: The Crisis of War -- 7 A Hotly Disputed Territory: The Struggle for Eastern Galicia -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Data on Oil Production -- Notes -- Archival and Primary Sources -- IndexAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain a modern military. How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia (the province producing the oil) and the Empire? In a brilliantly conceived work, Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry. She portrays this often overlooked oil boom's transformation of the environment, and its reorientation of religious and social divisions that had defined a previously agrarian population, as surprising alliances among traditional foes sprang up among workers and entrepreneurs, at the workplace, and in the pubs and brothels of new oiltowns. Frank sets this complex story in a context of international finance, technological exchange, and Habsburg history as a sobering counterpoint to traditional modernization narratives. As the oil ran out, the economy, the population, and the environment returned largely to their former state, reminding us that there is nothing ineluctable about the consequences of industrial development.Harvard Historical StudiesPetroleum industry and tradeGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)HistoryGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)Economic conditionsGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)Social conditionsPetroleum industry and tradeHistory.338.2728094386Frank Alison Fleig845284MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807372503321Oil empire1886143UNINA