Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Creating the North American Landscape (Paperback))
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801877326 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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D. E. W. Turner said Petrolia. It begins with the strike of oil by Edwin Drake on "Petrolia" according to D. E. W. Turner. It begins with the strike of oil by Edwin Drake on 27 August 1859. The world had been using whale oil for illumination but whales were getting harder to find and the Industrial Revolution called for something far more lubricating for the engines of manufacturing. Petroleum use had been developed in England but the source was difficult to obtain. Drake combined the technologies of water well drilling with salt rock excavation and, voila, created petroleum drilling. A new industry was thus born and boomed in the valley of Oil Creek in the western Pennsylvania county of Venango. Boomtowns were born and died within a . 7 August 1859. The world had been using whale oil for illumination but whales were getting harder to find and the Industrial Revolution called for something far more lubricating for the engines of manufacturing. Petroleum use had been developed in England but the source was difficult to obtain. Drake combined the technologies of water well drilling with salt rock excavation and, voila, created petroleum drilling. A new industry was thus born and boomed in the valley of Oil Creek in the western Pennsylvania county of Venango. Boomtowns were born and died within a . Bravo Brian Black A Customer Never before have I read such an eloquent and informative journey through the oil boom of Pennsylvania. The photographic images that Dr. Black has chosen for his book are as captivating and clear as his text. An outstanding and brilliantly written book.. Award-winner A Customer PETROLIA recently was awarded the Giddens Prize as the best new writing on oil history, 1996-2000.
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. Known as "Petrolia," the region charged the popular imagination with its nearly overnight transition from agriculture to industry. 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. But so unrestrained
Brian Black is an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College, and editor of Pennsylvania History.
(Hugh S. Gorman Historical Geography) . A wonderful demonstration of the possibilities of historical studies of technology and culture Just as Black offers Petrolia as the prototypical landscape of industrial sacrifice, his book will surely serve as the model for a new genre of holistic historical studies of people, place, technology, and culture. (Ralph Wilcox Vernacular Architecture Newsletter)Although Black uses the development of Petrolia to make larger points about how resource extraction changes ecological interactions, he is also interested in the region as a specific place with a specific history While other scholars have written about what happens when