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1. aoghs.org › petroleum-history-booksOil History Books - American Oil & Gas Historical Society

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   A brief look at recent oil history books, including industry pioneers and the earth sciences of exploration, production, and transportation.

2. www.energy-reporters.com › opinion › a-top-ten-bookA top-ten book list for energy history, policy and geopolitics

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   • Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization: A History: Smil has written dozens of excellent books on energy – he is akin to what Bernard Lewis was to the field of Middle East studies.
   • Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power: This massive narrative history hooked me on studying the history of energy geopolitics.
   • John R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World: Published nearly twenty years ago, there is still no clearer study of how humans have altered their environment – soil, sea, and atmosphere – in radical ways thanks largely to the use of fossil fuels and its iterations.
   • Barbara Freese, Coal: A Human History: Coal is the root of our climate problem and, despite the environmental community’s focus on oil, remains the biggest threat today, as developing countries continue to build new coal power plants.

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4. books.google.com › books › aboutCrude Reality : Petroleum in World History - Google Books

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   Sep 30, 2020 · Today, we see the disastrous results in environmental degradation, political instability, and world economic disparity in the waning years of a petroleum-powered civilization—lessons rooted in...

   • Bibliography: 267
   • Index: 277

   • Chronology of Spills: 251
   • Notes: 255

5. www.goodreads.com › book › showCrude Reality: Petroleum in World History - Goodreads

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   Mar 22, 2012 · Leading environmental history specialist Brian C. Black connects the subsequent exploitation of petroleum to patterns in world history while tracing the intricate links between energy and people after 1850.

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6. www.amazon.com › Crude-Reality-Petroleum-HistoryCrude Reality: Petroleum in World History (Exploring World ...

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   Oct 6, 2020 · Brian Black is one of America’s leading historians of energy and the oil industry, and this updated book provides scholars and the general public a splendid guide to those subjects. It is concise, thoroughly researched, wide-ranging in focus, and as relevant to our times as history can be.

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7. aoghs.org › chronology-of-u-s-petroleum-historyA Chronology of U.S. Petroleum History - American Oil & Gas ...

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   The U.S. petroleum industry began on August 27, 1859, with a Pennsylvania well drilled specifically for oil. “Any survey of the natural resources used as sources of energy must include a discussion about the importance of oil, the lifeblood of all industrialized nations.”.

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   Should you read a book about petroleum history?

   • According many oil and natural industry experts, energy educators, and policy makers, if time allows you reading only one book about petroleum history, it should be this 1991 best seller by journalist Daniel Yergin. Dan Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for his epic examination of the worldwide petroleum industry.

   Oil History Books - American Oil & Gas Historical Society

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   What books should I read about oil?

   • Recommended Reading (April 9): Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank (2008); The Greatest Gamblers: The Epic of American Oil Exploration (1979); Early Days of Oil: A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania (2000); Oil in Oklahoma (1976).

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   Which oil history books are available online?

   • The AOGHS listing below, limited as it is (for now), offers some classic 18th century texts that are available online; other oil history books, like Paul H. Giddens’s 1938 The Birth of the Oil Industry (with introduction by Ida Tarbell) are more rare.

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   What is the petroleum industry history timeline?

   • The petroleum industry history timeline is part of an on-going project of the American Oil & Gas historical Society (you are invited to join the research effort). Importantly, America’s fossil fuel history provides a context for understanding modern energy challenges. Comments, suggestions — and additions — are welcomed.

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   What is the American Oil & Gas Historical Society?

   • As an Amazon Associate, the American Oil & Gas Historical Society earns a commission from qualifying purchases. The American Oil & Gas Historical Society ( AOGHS) preserves U.S. petroleum history. Become an AOGHS annual supporting member and help maintain this energy education website and expand historical research.

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   When was the first oil well biography published?

   • The limited edition biography of the father of the U.S. petroleum industry was published in 2009 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his historic oil well.

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   Mar 22, 2012 · Leading environmental history specialist Brian C. Black connects the subsequent exploitation of petroleum to patterns in world history while tracing the intricate links between energy and people...