Boomtown Blues - Colorado Oil Shale

Klappentext Boomtown Blues examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social! environmental! and financial havoc created by the industry's continual cycles of boom and bust. Zusammenfassung Examines the 100-year history of oil shale development, and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry's cycles of boom and bust. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Exploration and Settlement in the Valley of the Colorado; Outsiders! Insiders and Ties That bind: The First Oil Shale Book and its Aftermath; Shale Shock; Exxon and the Big Boom; From Boom to Bust: The Tiger Empties the Tank; The White Paper! Black Sunday and Corporate Responsibility in the West; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Gulliford
• Publisher: University Press Of Colorado
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780870817205
• ISBN: 978-0-87081-720-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Mining the American West; Mining the American West
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous