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Asphalt : a history / Kenneth O'Reilly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Reilly, Kenneth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asphalt--History.
- Asphalt.
- Asphalt--Environmental aspects--History.
- Asphalt--Social aspects--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Nature : tar pits and asphalt volcanoes
- Use : fired bricks and mummy wars
- Faith : asphalt's dark ages
- Triumph : the blacktop dawn
- Duty : conquering poverty and mud, Reich and Rising Sun
- Crusades : asphalt in the Cold War
- Angles : terrorists, tricksters, Tea Partiers
- Overburden : the oil sand century
- Conclusion : the other black hole.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496226365
- 1496226364
- 9781496222077
- 1496222075
- OCLC:
- 1249799226
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