Crude reality : petroleum in world history / Brian C. Black.
Black, Brian, 1966-
2014
HD9560.5 .B494 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Crude reality : petroleum in world history / Brian C. Black.
Author Black, Brian, 1966-
Edition Updated edition.
ISBN 9780742556553 (paperback)
0742556557 (paperback)
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2014]
Language English
Description x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number HD9560.5 .B494 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.2/728209
Summary Considers the history of petroleum's engineering, production, refining, and consumption, and synthesizes recent scholarship linking overreliance on the resource to environmental degradation and economic disparity.
Note "Copyright ©2012 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Epilogue to paperback edition copyright ©2014 by Rowman & Littlefield"--Verso of title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index.
Series Exploring world history.
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Introduction: Beginning as black goo
pt. 1. Cultural exchange, 1750-1890
Infrastructure: Drilling for saltwater
From black goo to black gold
Crossing borders to increase supply
Modeling big oil
Infrastructure: Shipping crude throughout the globe
pt. 2. Going mobile, 1890-1960
Infrastructure: Pumping gas
Hitting the road
Marching for petroleum : supply and weapons
Infrastructure: "Want fries with that?"
pt. 3. The globalization of petroleum dominance, 1960-present
Infrastructure: Big science helps big oil
Consuming cultures
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
"Peak oil," climate change, and petroleum under siege
Portrait of addiction : U.S. petroleum use
Epilogue: Resource curse : time for an oil change?
Chronology of petroleum in world history
Chronology of spills.

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