[PDF.75vr] Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Creating the North American Landscape (Paperback))

Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Creating the North American Landscape (Paperback))

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 | #1538100 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2003-10-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.61 x6.00l,.88 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Petrolia|By D. E. W. Turner|It begins with the strike of oil by Edwin Drake on 27 August 1859. The world had been using whale oil for illumination but whales were getting harder to find and the Industrial Revolution called for something far more lubricating for the engines of manufacturing. Petroleum use had been developed in England but the source was difficult to obtain. D| ||"A wonderful demonstration of the possibilities of historical studies of technology and culture... Just as Black offers Petrolia as the prototypical landscape of industrial sacrifice, his book will surely serve as the model for a new genre of holistic

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 ove...

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