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Petrolia: the landscape of America's first oil boom

Brian Black

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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
INTRODUCTION The Persistence of Oil on the Brain (page 1)
CHAPTER ONE "A Good Time Coming for Whales" (page 13)
CHAPTER TWO "A Triumph of Individualism" (page 37)
CHAPTER THREE The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia (page 60)
CHAPTER FOUR Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus (page 82)
CHAPTER FIVE "What Nature Intended This Place Should Be" (page 107)
CHAPTER SIX Pithole: Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City" (page 140)
CHAPTER SEVEN Delusions of Permancence (page 172)
EPILOGUE The Legacy of Petrolia (page 190)
Appendix (page 199)
Notes (page 201)
Select Bibliography (page 219)
Index (page 227)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
JAH	88.4 (Mar. 2002): 1550	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2700679
ISIS	93.1 (Mar. 2002): 151-152	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/343326
PMHB	125.4 (Oct. 2001): 428-429	http://www.jstor.org/stable/20093497
TC	43.1 (Jan. 2002): 187-189	http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147879
ENVH	7.1 (Jan. 2002): 139-141	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3985468
GR	91.3 (July 2001): 606-608	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3594746
AHR	108.2 (Apr. 2003): 527-528	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533300

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Published: 2000

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN(s)

9780801874659 (ebook)
9780801877322 (paper)
9780801863172 (hardcover)

Subject

Environmental History