Finding oil : the nature of petroleum geology, 1859-1920 /
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 inc...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- 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.