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Oil Cities
- The Making of North Louisiana's Boomtowns, 1901-1930
Engelsk
Bogcover for Oil Cities af Henry Alexander Wiencek, 9781477329177
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9781477329177
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
147732917X
Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,5 x 16,1 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2024
Forfatter(e):

Oil Cities

- The Making of North Louisiana's Boomtowns, 1901-1930
Engelsk
Hardback 2024
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How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century. In 1904, prospectors discovered oil in the rural parishes of North Louisiana just outside Shreveport. As rural cotton fields gave way to dense, industrial centers of energy extraction, migrants from across the US-and the world-rushed to take a share of the boom. The resulting boomtowns, most notoriously Oil City, quickly gained a reputation for violence, drinking, and rough living. Meanwhile, North Louisiana’s large Black population endured virulent white supremacy in the oil fields and the courtrooms to earn a piece of the boom, including one Black woman who stood to become the wealthiest oil heiress in America. In Oil Cities, Henry Wiencek uncovers what life was like amidst the tent cities, saloons, and oil derricks of North Louisiana’s oil boomtowns, tracing the local experiences of migrants, farmers, sex workers, and politicians as they navigated dizzying changes to their communities. This first historical monograph on the region’s dramatic oil boom reveals a contested history, in which the oil industry had to adapt its labor, tools, and investments to meet North Louisiana’s unique economic, social, political, and environmental dynamics.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9781477329177
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
147732917X
Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,5 x 16,1 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2024
Forfatter(e):
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