Description: Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.
Brief description: Brian Black is an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College, and editor of Pennsylvania History.
Review Quotes: A wonderful demonstration of the possibilities of historical studies of technology and culture . . . Just as Black offers Petrolia as the prototypical landscape of industrial sacrifice, his book will surely serve as the model for a new genre of holistic historical studies of people, place, technology, and culture.
--Peter Coates, Technology and Culture