Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History, Second Edition by Brian C. Black

Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History, Second Edition

Brian C. Black

304 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced

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This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum has shaped human life since it was first discovered oozing inconspicuously from the soil. For a century, human dependence on petroleum caused little disco...

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