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Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom / / Brian Black



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Autore: Black Brian <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom / / Brian Black Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
Disciplina: 338.4/76223382/0974897
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.) Environmental conditions History
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-225) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.
Altri titoli varianti: Landscape of America's first oil boom
Titolo autorizzato: Petrolia  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8018-7465-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996248312003316
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Serie: Creating the North American landscape.