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Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 Hardback - 2011

by Brian Frehner

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Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.

Oil has made fortunes, caused wars, and shaped nations. Accordingly, no one questions the idea that the quest for oil is a quest for power. The question we should ask, Finding Oil suggests, is what kind of power prospectors have wanted. This book revises oil's early history by exploring the incredibly varied stories of the men who pitted themselves against nature to unleash the power of oil. Brian Frehner shows how, despite the towering presence of a figure like John D. Rockefeller as a quintessential "oil man," prospectors were a diverse lot who saw themselves, their interests, and their relationships with nature in profoundly different ways. He traces their various pursuits of power from 1859 to 1920 as a struggle for cultural, intellectual, and professional authority, over both nature and their peers. Here we see how some saw power as the work they did exploring and drilling into landscapes, while others saw it in the intellectual work of explaining how and where oil accumulated. Charting the intersection of human and natural history, their story traces the ever-evolving relationship between science and industry and reveals the unsuspected role geology played in shaping our understanding of the history of oil.

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  • Title Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920
  • Author Brian Frehner
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition US Printing
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Publication date 2011-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780803234864 / 0803234864
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Petroleum industry and trade - United States, Petroleum industry and trade - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011008716
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.823

About the author

Brian Frehner is an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University. He received a Bill and Rita Clements Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America in 2004-5 and is the coeditor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest.
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