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Petrolia: the landscape of America's first oil boom

Brian Black 2000 © The Johns Hopkins University Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780801863172 (hardcover)
  • 9780801874659 (ebook)
  • 9780801877322 (paper)
Subject
  • Environmental History
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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 AbbreviationLabelURL
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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