| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom. By Brian Black. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv, 235 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6317-1.)

The subject that Brian Black writes about in Petrolia is familiar to anyone who knows about the birth of the petroleum industry. The vantage point of this book is quite different, however. Learning at the feet of the well-known environmental historian Donald Worster, Black goes "beyond the commodity" of oil to examine the physical setting of the world's first extraction of crude oil beginning in 1859 in Pennsylvania's Oil Creek valley. He is interested in re-creating "one of the earliest examples of the culture of massive disturbance—the culture that remains a mainstay of American economic development." . . .

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