Author: Henrietta Melia LarsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
New Horizons
Author: Henrietta M. LarsonNew Horizons, 1927-1950
Author: Henrietta Melia LarsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
New Horizons 1927-1950 : History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
Author: Henrietta M. LarsonHistory of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey).: New horizons, 1927-1950, by, H. M. Larson, E. H. Knowlton, and C. S. Popple
Author: New Horizons
Author: Henrietta M. LarsonHistory of Standard Oil Company
Author: R. W. HidyHistory of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey).
Author: Henrietta M.. KLarsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of New York City
Author: Kenneth T. JacksonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182570
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 4282
Book Description
Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.
Mirage
Author: Aileen KeatingPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615925384
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
In this fascinating history of the discovery, development, and exploitation of Middle East oil, an international journalist tells a largely unknown story rich in drama, conflict, and comic interludes. Illustrations.
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
Author: Corey RossPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199590419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our world today, and how they were related to broader social, cultural, and political developments in Europe's colonies. Covering the overseas empires of all the major European powers, Corey Ross argues that tropical environments were not merely a stage on which conquest and subjugation took place, but were an essential part of the colonial project, profoundly shaping the imperial enterprise even as they were shaped by it. The story he tells is not only about the complexities of human experience, but also about people's relationship with the ecosystems in which they were themselves embedded: the soil, water, plants, and animals that were likewise a part of Europe's empire. Although it shows that imperial conquest rarely represented the signal ecological trauma that some accounts suggest, it nonetheless demonstrates that modern imperialism marked a decisive and largely negative milestone for the natural environment. By relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts that they entailed, this book provides a historical perspective on the vital nexus of social, political, and environmental issues that we face in the twenty-first-century world.