Petrolia

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Petrolia is written by Brian Black and published by JHU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801863171 (ISBN 10) and 9780801863172 (ISBN 13).

Known as "Petrolia," the region charged the popular imagination with its nearly overnight transition from agriculture to industry. But so unrestrained were these early efforts at oil drilling, Black writes, that "the landscape came to be viewed only as an instrument out of which one could extract crude." In a very short time, Petrolia was a ruined place - environmentally, economically, and to some extent even culturally.