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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wlasiuk, Jonathan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Collection:History of the urban environment.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Improved earth
  • Fire
  • Water
  • Air
  • Efficient earth
  • Conclusion : a river burns through it.