Crude reality : petroleum in world history / Brian C. Black.

By:

Black, Brian, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: eng Series: Exploring world historyPublication details: Lanham, [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012.Description: x, 277 pages : ill, ; 24 cmISBN:

9780742556546 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442216112 (electronic)

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DDC classification:

338.2/728209 23

LOC classification:

HD9560.5 .B494 2012

Contents:

Introduction: Beginning as black goo pt. 1. Cultural exchange, 1750-1890 Infrastructure: Drilling for saltwater From black goo to black gold Crossing borders to increase supply Modeling big oil Infrastructure: Shipping crude throughout the globe pt. 2. Going mobile, 1890-1960 Infrastructure: Pumping gas Hitting the road Marching for petroleum : supply and weapons Infrastructure: "Want fries with that?" pt. 3. The globalization of petroleum dominance, 1960-present Infrastructure: Big science helps big oil Consuming cultures To have and have not Infrastructure: NYMEX and the commodity of crude pt. 4. Living with limits and energy transitions, 1980-present Infrastructure: Climate change reveals a new world order "Peak oil," climate change, and petroleum under siege Portrait of addiction : U.S. petroleum use Epilogue: Resource curse : time for an oil change? Chronology of petroleum in world history Chronology of spills

Summary: Considers the history of petroleum's engineering, production, refining, and consumption, and synthesizes recent scholarship linking overreliance on the resource to environmental degradation and

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.

Introduction: Beginning as black goo
pt. 1. Cultural exchange, 1750-1890
Infrastructure: Drilling for saltwater
From black goo to black gold
Crossing borders to increase supply
Modeling big oil
Infrastructure: Shipping crude throughout the globe
pt. 2. Going mobile, 1890-1960
Infrastructure: Pumping gas
Hitting the road
Marching for petroleum : supply and weapons
Infrastructure: "Want fries with that?"
pt. 3. The globalization of petroleum dominance, 1960-present
Infrastructure: Big science helps big oil
Consuming cultures
To have and have not
Infrastructure: NYMEX and the commodity of crude
pt. 4. Living with limits and energy transitions, 1980-present
Infrastructure: Climate change reveals a new world order
"Peak oil," climate change, and petroleum under siege
Portrait of addiction : U.S. petroleum use
Epilogue: Resource curse : time for an oil change?
Chronology of petroleum in world history
Chronology of spills

Considers the history of petroleum's engineering, production, refining, and consumption, and synthesizes recent scholarship linking overreliance on the resource to environmental degradation and

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