The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines
Author : Arthur Menzies Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Menzies Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Menzies Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Menzies Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Roger M. Olien
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807848357
A synthesis of cultural, business, gender and intellectual history, exploring how the negative image of America's petrol industry was created. It shows how this image helped shape policy toward the industry in ways that were sometimes at odds with the goals or reformers and the public interest.
Author : Harold Francis Williamson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.
Author : Christopher F. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674728890
The fossil fuel revolution is usually a tale of advances in energy production. Christopher Jones tells a tale of advances in energy access—canals, pipelines, wires delivering cheap, abundant power to cities at a distance from production sites. Between 1820 and 1930 these new transportation networks set the U.S. on a path to fossil fuel dependence.
Author : Wilson Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1501743546
A relatively unexplored subject in the social and intellectual history of our country is the contribution made by the moral philosophers, the social scientists of their day. What was their place in the academic and practical world? What was the nature of their social ethics? Did they have a real voice in public affairs? What brought about the decline of their influence? These questions are dealt with in Professors and Public Ethics. In particular, Professor Smith discusses the beliefs and careers of some of the leading moral philosophers—William Paley, John Daniel Gros, Francis Lieber, Charles B. Haddock, Francis Wayland, James Walker, and others. Their writings and their views upon moral questions and the moral aspects of leading questions of their time are presented; among the problems dealt with are abolition of slavery, state rights, the Mexican War, Know-Nothing politics, agriculture and farm problems, the tariff, free trade, savings banks, recessions and booms, repudiation of state debts, and prison reform. Historians, as well as present-day social scientists and church leaders, should find Professors and Public Ethics a sound, thoughtful, and valuable contribution to our knowledge about the mid-nineteenth century.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
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Author : Brian Black
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0801874653
This award-winning history provides a fascinating look at the Civil War era oil boom in western Pennsylvania and its devastating impact on the region. 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 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 of northwestern Pennsylvania 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. Winner of the Paul H. Giddens Prize in Oil History from Oil Heritage Region, Inc.
Author : Timothy Cobban
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442663146
Cities of Oil is the first sustained historical account of the development of the early Canadian petroleum refining and manufacturing industry. In it, Timothy W. Cobban documents the industry’s development in southern Ontario, from its beginnings in the 1850s to its later expansion on the outskirts of London, to Petrolia, and finally to Sarnia. He accounts for all of the industry’s important developments and innovations, particularly the role played by municipalities in fostering its growth. Using extensive archival research, Cobban concludes that municipalities can stimulate the accelerated, sustained development of local industry sectors, thus challenging the dominant view that the influence of municipalities on economic growth is marginal. Cities of Oil demonstrates the importance of accommodating the land and infrastructure needs of industry at critical junctures, and implementing land use policies that encourage the dense clustering of industries. This book will be essential reading for those seeking a greater understanding of industrial growth in the province of Ontario.