In "Petrolia," Brian Black offers a geographical and social
history of a region that was not only the site of America's first
oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859
and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for
petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black
describes Oil Creek Valley's descent into environmental hell. Known
as "Petrolia," the region charged the popular imagination with its
nearly overnight transition from agriculture to industry. But so
unrestrained were these early efforts at oil drilling, Black
writes, that "the landscape came to be viewed only as an instrument
out of which one could extract crude." In a very short time,
Petrolia was a ruined place--environmentally, economically, and to
some extent even culturally. Black gives historical detail and
analysis to account for this transformation.
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