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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wlasiuk, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:History of the urban environment.
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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.