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Author Black, Brian, 1966- author.

Title Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom / Brian Black
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Creating the North American landscape
Creating the North American landscape.
Contents Introduction: The Persistence of Oil on the Brain -- Ch. 1. "A Good Time Coming for Whales" -- Ch. 2. "A Triumph of Individualism" -- Ch. 3. The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia -- Ch. 4. Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus -- Ch. 5. "What Nature Intended This Place Should Be" -- Ch. 6. Pithole : Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City" -- Ch. 7. Delusions of Permanence -- Epilogue : The Legacy of Petrolia
Summary "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
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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index
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Subject Petroleum -- Pennsylvania -- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.) -- History
Petroleum industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.) -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
Ecology
Petroleum
Petroleum industry and trade
Exploration pétrolière.
Industrie pétrolière.
Pétrole.
Histoire.
Impact environnemental.
SUBJECT Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.) -- Environmental conditions -- History
Subject Pennsylvania -- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County)
Pennsylvanie (État)
Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango county, Pa.)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0801874653
9780801874659
0801863171
9780801863172