Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom /

Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Black, Brian, 1966-
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.
Description:	xii, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Creating the North American landscape
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. Ecology. Petroleum. Petroleum industry and trade. Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.) -- Environmental conditions -- History. Pennsylvania -- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4312048

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ISBN:	0801863171 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-225) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Persistence of Oil on the Brain
Chapter 1. "A Good Time Coming for Whales"
Chapter 2. "A Triumph of Individualism"
Chapter 3. The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia
Chapter 4. Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus
Chapter 5. "What Nature Intended This Place Should Be"
Chapter 6. Pithole: Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City"
Chapter 7. Delusions of Permanence
Epilogue: The Legacy of Petrolia
Appendix
Notes
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Index