Title: Crude reality
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.
Subjects: Petroleum, History, Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum products, Economic aspects, Social aspects, Erdölwirtschaft, Petroleum industry and trade, history