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Petrolia
[Book]
the landscape of America's first oil boom /
Brian Black
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000
1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Creating the North American landscape
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index
"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 changes in attitudes toward consumption and the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black describes Oil Creek Valley's descent into environmental hell
Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation."--Jacket
Known as "Petrolia," the region charged the popular imagination with its nearly overnight transition from agriculture to industry. But so unrestrained were these early efforts at oil drilling, Black writes, that "the landscape came to be viewed only as an instrument out of which one could extract crude." In a very short time, Petrolia was a ruined place - environmentally, economically, and to some extent even culturally
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Petrolia.
0801863171
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Petroleum industry and trade-- Pennsylvania-- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.)-- History
Petroleum-- Pennsylvania-- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.)-- History
Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.), Environmental conditions, History
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