Crude reality petroleum in world history
This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum shaped human life since it was first discovered leaking inconspicuously from the soil. Leading environmental history specialist Brian C. Black connects the subsequent exploitation of petroleum to patterns in...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
[2012]
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| Edition: | Updated edition |
| Series: | Exploring world history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beginning as Black Goo
- pt.1. Cultural Exchange, 1750-1890
- Infrastructure: Drilling for Saltwater
- 1. From Black Goo to Black Gold
- 2. Crossing Borders to Increase Supply
- 3. Modeling Big Oil
- Infrastructure: Shipping Crude throughout the Globe
- pt.2. Going Mobile, 1890-1960
- Infrastructure: Pumping Gas
- 4. Hitting the Road
- 5. Marching for Petroleum: Supply and Weapons
- pt.3. The Globalization of Petroleum Dominance, 1960-Present
- Infrastructure: Big Science Helps Big Oil
- 6. Consuming Cultures
- 7. To Have and Have Not
- Infrastructure: NYMEX and the Commodity of Crude
- pt.4. Living With Limits and Energy Transitions, 1980-Present
- Infrastructure: Climate Change Reveals a New World Order
- 8. "Peak Oil," Climate Change, and Petroleum under Siege
- Portrait of Addiction: US. Petroleum Use.