Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History, Updated Edition

by Brian C. Black

Book Overview

This concise, accessible 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. For a century, human dependence on petroleum caused little discomfort...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742556557
• ISBN13: 9780742556553
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"