Petrolia – the Landscape of America`s First Oil Boom : The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
by
Brian Black
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Creating the North American Landscape
ISBN-10
0801863171
ISBN-13
9780801863172
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint
Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 11th, 2000
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
539 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.20 cms
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Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.
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 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. Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.
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