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BL
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702332
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b524521
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| Main Entry
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Black, Brian,1966-
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| Title & Author
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Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom /\ Brian Black
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2000
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| Series Statement
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Creating the North American landscape
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1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0801874653
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0801863171
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0801877326
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9780801863172
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9780801877322
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index
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| Abstract
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"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
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Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation."--Jacket
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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
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Petroleum industry and trade-- Pennsylvania-- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.)-- History
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Petroleum-- Pennsylvania-- Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.)-- History
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Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.), Environmental conditions, History
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| LC Classification
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TN872.P4B56 2000eb
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