Author: Kendall BeatonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258234874
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Enterprise in Oil
Author: Kendall BeatonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258234874
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Enterprise in Oil, a History of Shell in the United States, by Kendall Beaton
Author: Kendall BeatonEnterprise in Oil. A History of Shell in the United States. [With Plates, Including Portraits, and Maps.].
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Author: Kendall BeatonMade in USA
Author: Andrew J. TheisingPublisher: Virginia Publishing
ISBN: 9781891442216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The first ever comprehensive history of this troubled city, the book includes more than 250 photographs amd images of the people and events that shaped East St. Louis. Andrew Theising, a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, examines the city's past from the prominent role it played in the growth of 19th century industrial America to its presently depleted state. For Theising, East St. Louis is more than just a river city suburb; it is an example of industry creating and then abandoning a city, and it is also one of the most misunderstood cities in America.
The History of the British Petroleum Company: Volume 1, The Developing Years, 1901-1932
Author: Ronald W. FerrierPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521246477
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
This comprehensive history of British Petroleum has been based firmly on the evidence from contemporary records.
Blue Waters Ditch Improvements, East St. Louis
Author: Automobility
Author: Corey T. LesseigPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815333432
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book investigates the opportunities the automobile presented for early twentieth Mississippians to change their patterns of work and leisure.
Petroleum Extraction in Ventura County, California
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Offshore oil industry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Gas Station in America
Author: John A. JaklePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801869198
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
"The first architect-designed gas station - a Pittsburgh Gulf station in 1913 - was also the first to offer free road maps; the familiar Shell name and logo date from 1907, when a British mother-of-pearl importer expanded its line to include the newly discovered oil of the Dutch East Indies; the first enclosed gas stations were built only after the first enclosed cars made motoring a year-round activity - and operating a service station was no longer a "seasonal" job; the system of "octane" rating was introduced by Sun Oil as a marketing gimmick (74 for premium in 1931)." "As the number of "true" gas stations continues its steady decline - from 239,000 in 1969 to fewer than 100,000 today - the words and images of this book bear witness to an economic and cultural phenomenon that was perhaps more uniquely American than any other of this century."--Jacket.
A Pipeline Runs Through It
Author: Keith FisherPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141999640
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael Klare Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed light, heat and power. A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, in-depth look at the social, economic, and geopolitical forces involved in our transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary origin story, from the pre-industrial history of petroleum through to large-scale production in the mid-nineteenth century and the development of a dominant, fully-fledged oil industry by the early twentieth century. This was always a story of imperialist violence, economic exploitation and environmental destruction. The near total eradication of the Native Americans of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio has barely been mentioned as a precondition for the emergence of the first oil region in the United States. The growth of Royal Dutch-Shell involved the genocidal subjugation of people of the Dutch East Indies and the exploitation of oil in the Middle East arose seamlessly out of Britain's prior political and military interventions in the region. Finally, in an entirely new analysis, the book shows how the British navy's increasingly desperate dependence on vulnerable foreign sources of oil may have been a catalytic ingredient in the outbreak of the First World War. The rise of oil has shaped the modern world, and this is the book to understand it.