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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Crude awakenings -- Rules of capture -- Worlds of wonder -- Dawn of the gusher age -- Carbon gospels -- Trust busting -- American plans -- Fightin' oil -- Petro wars -- Holy grounds -- Wildcat redemption -- The great game -- Crude reckonings -- Power shifts -- Approaching Armageddon -- The end of America's century. |
| Summary |
A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Original 9780465060863 |
| Subject |
Business -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Petroleum -- United States -- History.
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Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History.
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Oil industries -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Church history.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781541673953
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| STANDARD # |
77FE9FFC-A66F-47D4-B82B-46B9C30E2F11 OverDrive |
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