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Black, Brian C. "Petrolia: The Landscape of Pennsylvania's Oil Boom, 1859-1873," American Studies Program, University of Kansas, April 1996.
This work of environmental history considers the ongoing shifts in the relationship between humans and nature as a series of revolutions that can be witnessed on the landscape. In each of these instances technology enables the human to impact the physical environment more intensely or in different ways. Based on the analysis of photos and other more traditional historical sources, this dissertation recreates the 1860s landscape of the world’s first oil boom in order to unearth patters of change in environmental ethics and values guiding land-use that were brought about by the second or later industrial revolution in the U.S.
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