Oil in American History
A Special Issue
Consulting Editors: Brian C. Black, Karen R. Merrill, and Tyler Priest
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- Introduction: A Decidedly Valuable and Dangerous Fuel
by - Oil and the American Century
by - Oil for Living: Petroleum and American Conspicuous Consumption
by - Blessed by Oil, Cursed with Crude: God and Black Gold in the American Southwest
by - Culture Clash: Foreign Oil and Indigenous People in Northern Veracruz, Mexico,
1900–1921
by - Fueling the Boom: Gasoline Taxes, Invisibility, and the Growth of the American
Highway Infrastructure, 1919–1956
by - Oil in the City: The Fall and Rise of Oil Drilling in Los Angeles
by - An Incomplete Solution: Oil and Water in Louisiana
by - Bucking the Odds: Organized Labor in Gulf Coast Oil Refining
by and - Petropolis and Environmental Protest in Cross-National Perspective: Beaumont—Port
Arthur, Texas, versus Minatitlán-Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz
by - There Will Be Birds: Images of Oil Disasters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
by - Imaging the “Devil’s Excrement”: Big Oil in Petroleum Cinema, 1940–2007
by and - Exxon and the Control of Oil
by - U.S. Oil Companies, the Nigerian Civil War, and the Origins of Opacity in the
Nigerian Oil Industry
by - Anonymity and Ambivalence: The Canadian and American Oil Industries and the
Emergence of Continental Oil
by - Crisis and Continuity in U.S. Oil Politics, 1965–1980
by - Building America’s First Offshore Oil Port: loop
by - Texas Metropole: Oil, the American West, and U.S. Power in the Postwar Years
by - America, Oil, and War in the Middle East
by - “Fetched Up”: Unlearned Lessons from the Exxon Valdez
by - The Seventeen-Year Overnight Wonder: George Mitchell and Unlocking the
Barnett Shale
by - The Dilemmas of Oil Empire
by - The Risks of Dead Reckoning: A Postscript on Oil, Climate Change, and Political
Time
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