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Oil empire : visions of prosperity in Austrian Galicia / Alison Fleig Frank.
Lippincott Library HD9575.G35 F73 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frank, Alison Fleig.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum industry and trade--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- History.
- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Economic conditions.
- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine).
- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
- Contents:
- Map: The Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1914 xxi
- 1 The Land Where Salt and Oil Flowed: Austrian Galicia 24
- 2 Galician California: Battles for Land and Mineral Rights 48
- 3 Petroleum Fever: Foreign Entrepreneurs and a New National Industry 75
- 4 The Boys Don't Sleep at Home: Workers' Dreams of Wealth and Independence 109
- 5 Oil City: The Epidemic of Overproduction 140
- 6 Blood of the Earth: The Crisis of War 173
- 7 A Hotly Disputed Territory: The Struggle for Eastern Galicia 205
- Appendix Data on Oil Production 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674018877
- OCLC:
- 60245463
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