Brian Frehner

Finding Oil

The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Frehner is an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University. He received a Bill and Rita Clements Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America in 2004¿5 and is the coeditor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780803234864
• ISBN-10: 0803234864
• Artikelnr.: 33621310

Autorenporträt

Brian Frehner is an associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University. He is the coeditor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Local Knowledge
1. Vernacular Authority in the Oil Field
2. Collaborative Authority: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of Petroleum
Geology
Part 2. Contested Knowledge
3. Shared Authority: Practical Oil Men and Professional Geologists
4. Institutional Authority: Field Work, Universities, and Surveys
Part 3. Appropriated Knowledge
5. Geology Organized: Henry L. Doherty's Technological System
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index