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Author : William Culp Darrah
Publisher : William Darrah Culp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Pithole, the Vanished City written by William Culp Darrah and published by William Darrah Culp. This book was released on 1972 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Culp Darrah
Publisher : William Darrah Culp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Pithole, the Vanished City written by William Culp Darrah and published by William Darrah Culp. This book was released on 1972 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles C. Leonard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The History of Pithole written by Charles C. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Pithole, Vanished City of Oil written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pageant of America, a Pictorial History of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Exchange of Notes Between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Greek Government written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Henry Gabriel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Pageant of America: The epic of industry, by Malcolm Keir written by Ralph Henry Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Stott
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897955
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Jolly Fellows written by Richard Stott and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control. Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.
Author : Edwin Black
Publisher : Dialog Press
ISBN 13 : 0914153234
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Internal Combustion written by Edwin Black and published by Dialog Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive, eye-opening expose of the corporate forces that have for more than a century sabotaged the creation of alternative energies and vehicles in order to keep us dependent on oil. There is enough truth in this book to revolutionize our way of life. Winner of four awards for editorial excellence: American Society of Journalists and Authors Best Book, Thomas Edison Award, Green Globes, and an AJPA Rockower Award.
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Black
Publisher : Dialog Press
ISBN 13 : 091415365X
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The Farhud written by Edwin Black and published by Dialog Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust.
Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439134839
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Prize written by Daniel Yergin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. This updated edition categorically proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first by tracing economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.” With his far-reaching insight and in-depth research, Yergin is uniquely positioned to address the present battle over energy which undoubtedly ranks as one of the most vital issues of our time. The canvas of his narrative history is enormous—from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, and both the Iraq War and current climate change. The definitive work on the subject of oil, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement, and great value—crucial to our understanding of world politics and the economy today—and tomorrow.
Author : Malcolm Keir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Epic of Industry written by Malcolm Keir and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Mann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345802845
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Wizard and the Prophet written by Charles Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Author : Terence Daintith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136522832
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Finders Keepers? written by Terence Daintith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginnings of the oil industry, production activity has been governed by the 'law of capture,' dictating that one owns the oil recovered from one's property even if it has migrated from under neighboring land. This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated by foreign critics as a 'law of the jungle' and identified by American commentators as the root cause of the enormous waste of oil and gas resulting from US production methods in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet while in almost every other country the law of capture is today of marginal significance, it continues in full vigour in the United States, with potentially wasteful results. In this richly documented account, Terence Daintith adopts a historical and comparative perspective to show how legal rules, technical knowledge (or the lack of it) and political ideas combined to shape attitudes and behavior in the business of oil production, leading to the original adoption of the law of capture, its consolidation in the United States, and its marginalization elsewhere.
Author : Paul Lucier
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402858
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Scientists and Swindlers written by Paul Lucier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “insightful” account of the early fossil fuel industry, the rise of the professional consultant, and the nexus between science and money (Technology and Culture). In this impressively researched, highly original work, Paul Lucier explains how science became an integral part of American technology and industry in the nineteenth century. Scientists and Swindlers introduces us to a new service of professionals: the consulting scientists. Lucier follows these entrepreneurial men of science on their wide-ranging commercial engagements from the shores of Nova Scotia to the coast of California and shows how their innovative work fueled the rapid growth of the American coal and oil industries and the rise of American geology and chemistry. Along the way, he explores the decisive battles over expertise and authority, the high-stakes court cases over patenting research, the intriguing and often humorous exploits of swindlers, and the profound ethical challenges of doing science for money. Starting with the small surveying businesses of the 1830s and reaching to the origins of applied science in the 1880s, Lucier recounts the complex and curious relations that evolved as geologists, chemists, capitalists, and politicians worked to establish scientific research as a legitimate, regularly compensated, and respected enterprise. This sweeping narrative enriches our understanding of how the rocks beneath our feet became invaluable resources for science, technology, and industry.
Author : Robert B. Gordon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195354826
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Texture of Industry written by Robert B. Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-06 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual work-places and how people worked. Workers seldom wrote about their daily employment. However, they did leave behind their tools, products, shops, and factories as well as the surrounding industrial landscapes and communities. In this book, Gordon and Malone look at the industrialization of North America from the perspective of the industrial archaeologist. Using material evidence from such varied sites as Indian steatite quarries, automobile plants, and coal mines, they examine manufacturing technology, transportation systems, and the effects of industrialization on the land. Their research greatly expands our understanding of industry and focuses attention on the contributions of anonymous artisans whose skills shaped our industrial heritage.
