Crude reality
Subtitle: petroleum in world history
By: Brian C. Black
Series: Exploring world history
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780742556546; 9781442216112
Subjects: Petroleum; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum products; History
Description: This introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum shaped human life since it was first discovered leaking inconspicuously from the soil. Leading environmental history specialist Brian C. Black connects the subsequent exploitation of petroleum to patterns in world history while tracing the intricate links between energy and people after 1850. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.