Petrolia

Petrolia

Author: Brian Black

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2000-06-16

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780801863172

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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.