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Oil Empire : Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (367 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674263581
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Oil EmpireDDC classification:
  • 338.2/728/094386
LOC classification:
  • HD9575
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- Abbreviations -- Map: The Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1914 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Land Where Salt and Oil Flowed: Austrian Galicia -- Chapter 2. Galician California: Battles for Land and Mineral Rights -- Chapter 3. Petroleum Fever: Foreign Entrepreneurs and a New National Industry -- Chapter 4. The Boys Don't Sleep at Home: Workers' Dreams of Wealth and Independence -- Chapter 5. Oil City: The Epidemic of Overproduction -- Chapter 6. Blood of the Earth: The Crisis of War -- Chapter 7. A Hotly Disputed Territory: The Struggle for Eastern Galicia -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Data on Oil Production -- Notes -- Archival and Primary Sources -- Index.
Summary: How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia and the Austrian Empire, which at the beginning of the 20th century ranked third among the world's oil-producing states? Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- Abbreviations -- Map: The Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1914 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Land Where Salt and Oil Flowed: Austrian Galicia -- Chapter 2. Galician California: Battles for Land and Mineral Rights -- Chapter 3. Petroleum Fever: Foreign Entrepreneurs and a New National Industry -- Chapter 4. The Boys Don't Sleep at Home: Workers' Dreams of Wealth and Independence -- Chapter 5. Oil City: The Epidemic of Overproduction -- Chapter 6. Blood of the Earth: The Crisis of War -- Chapter 7. A Hotly Disputed Territory: The Struggle for Eastern Galicia -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Data on Oil Production -- Notes -- Archival and Primary Sources -- Index.

How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia and the Austrian Empire, which at the beginning of the 20th century ranked third among the world's oil-producing states? Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.

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