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

• Autore: Black Brian <1966->
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8018-7465-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248312003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Creating the North American landscape.