Refining Nature : Standard Oil and the limits of Efficiency /
The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company's founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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Colección: | History of the urban environment.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Improved earth
- Fire
- Water
- Air
- Efficient earth
- Conclusion : a river burns through it.