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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Mining and Oil Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of MinesPublisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Company Men
Author: Clark DavisPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
The story of the early decades of American big business, when white-collar jobs were new and their future uncertain America's white-collar workers form the core of the nation's corporate economy and its expansive middle class. But just a century ago, white-collar jobs were new and their future anything but certain. In Company Men Clark Davis places the corporate office at the heart of American social and cultural history, examining how the nation's first generation of white-collar men created new understandings of masculinity, race, community, and success—all of which would dominate American experience for decades to come. Company Men is set in Los Angeles, the nation's "corporate frontier" of the early twentieth century. Davis shows how this California city—often considered on the fringe of American society for the very reason that it was new and growing so rapidly—displayed in sharp contours how America's corporate culture developed. The young men who left their rural homes for southern California a century ago not only helped build one of the world's great business centers, but also redefined middle-class values and morals. Of interest to students of business history, gender studies, and twentieth-century culture, this work focuses on the "company man" as a pivotal actor in the saga of modern American history.
Los Angeles
Author: Anton WagnerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606067559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
For the first time, Anton Wagner’s groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English. No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in 1935 as Los Angeles: Werden, Leben und Gestalt der Zweimillionenstadt in Südkalifornien, it is one of the earliest geographical investigations of a city understood as a series of layered landscapes. Wagner demonstrated that despite its geographical disadvantages, Los Angeles grew rapidly into a dominant urban region, bolstered by agriculture, real estate development, transportation infrastructure, tourism, the oil and automobile industries, and the film business. Although widely reviewed upon its initial publication, his book was largely forgotten until reintroduced by architectural historian Reyner Banham in his 1971 classic Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. This definitive translation is annotated by Edward Dimendberg and preceded by his substantial introduction, which traces Wagner's biography and intellectual formation in 1930s Germany and contextualizes his work among that of other geographers. It is an essential work for students, scholars, and curious readers interested in urban geography and the rise of Los Angeles as a global metropolis.
Roughnecks, Rock Bits and Rigs
Author: Bonar Alexander GowPublisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 155238067X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution of the component aspects of drilling technology in Alberta, from the evolution of power sources and drill bit designs to the composition of drilling muds and the use of fishing tools. Included are explanations of the costs and risks of oil well drilling and of the larger issue of industrial technology -- how it evolves and under what conditions. The author draws extensively from original source material such as interviews, photographs, and appendices from both the Glenbow Archives and the Devon-Leduc Petroleum Hall of Fame and Interpretive Ce.
Information Circular
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Bulletin - Standard Oil Company of California
Author: Standard Oil Company of CaliforniaPublisher:
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Recent Articles on Petroleum and Allied Substances
Author: United States. Bureau of MinesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Crude Politics
Author: Paul SabinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520241983
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Paul Sabin offers a study of the oil market in California before World War II, showing how the development of an economy & society very heavily dependent upon oil production & consumption was largely directed by policy decisions regarding property rights, regulatory law & public investment.
Reading California
Author: Stephanie BarronPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227675
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This collection of essays written by a stellar cast of art historians and scholars looks closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. Illustrations.