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Crude reality : petroleum in world history / Brian C. Black.
LIBRA HD9560.5 .B494 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Brian, 1966-
- Series:
- Exploring world history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum--Economic aspects--History.
- Petroleum.
- Petroleum products--History.
- Petroleum products.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects.
- History.
- Petroleum--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2012]
- Contents:
- Beginning as black goo
- From black goo to black gold
- Crossing borders to increase supply
- Modeling big oil
- Hitting the road
- Marching for petroleum : supply and weapons
- Consuming cultures
- To have and have not
- "Peak oil," climate change, and petroleum under siege.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742556546
- 0742556549
- 9781442216112
- 1442216115
- OCLC:
- 756592457
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