Refining Nature: Standard Oil and the Limits of Efficiency

(Part of the History of the Urban Environment Series)

by Jon Wlasiuk

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The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company's founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822965208

ISBN13:9780822965206

Release Date:November 2017

Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Refining Nature: Standard Oil and the Limits of Efficiency

(Part of the History of the Urban Environment Series)

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