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Asphalt : A History /
"Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Nature : tar pits and asphalt volcanoes
- Use : fired bricks and mummy wars
- Faith : asphalt's dark ages
- Triumph : the blacktop dawn
- Duty : conquering poverty and mud, Reich and Rising Sun
- Crusades : asphalt in the Cold War
- Angles : terrorists, tricksters, Tea Partiers
- Overburden : the oil sand century
- Conclusion : the other black hole.