TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frehner,Brian
TI  - Finding oil: the nature of petroleum geology, 1859-1920 
SN  - 9780803238374
AV  - HD9565 .F727 2011eb
U1  - 333.8/232097309034 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Petroleum
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
KW  - fast
KW  - Erdölindustrie
KW  - gnd
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Vernacular authority in the oil field -- Collaborative authority : nineteenth-century foundations of petroleum geology -- Contested knowledge -- Shared authority : practical oil men and professional geologists -- Institutional authority : field work, universities, and surveys -- Appropriated knowledge -- Geology organized : Hhenry I. Doherty's technological system
N2  - 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 relat
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