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Finding oil : the nature of petroleum geology, 1859-1920 / Brian Frehner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frehner, Brian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History--19th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Oil has made fortunes, caused wars, and shaped nations. Accordingly, no one questions the idea that the quest for oil is a quest for power. The question we should ask, Finding Oil suggests, is what kind of power prospectors have wanted. This book revises oil's early history by exploring the incredibly varied stories of the men who pitted themselves against nature to unleash the power of oil.Brian Frehner shows how, despite the towering presence of a figure like John D. Rockefeller as a quintessential "oil man," prospectors were a diverse lot who saw themselves, their
- Contents:
- Vernacular authority in the oil field
- Collaborative authority : nineteenth-century foundations of petroleum geology
- Contested knowledge
- Shared authority : practical oil men and professional geologists
- Institutional authority : field work, universities, and surveys
- Appropriated knowledge
- Geology organized : Hhenry I. Doherty's technological system.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613593511
- 9781280498282
- 1280498285
- 9780803238374
- 0803238371
- OCLC:
- 792741459
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