Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, Revised Edition: Mining the American West
Autor Andrew Gulliforden Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2003
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Colorado Book Award (2004)
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780870817205
ISBN-10: 0870817205
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 153 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University Press of Colorado
Colecția University Press of Colorado
Seria Mining the American West
ISBN-10: 0870817205
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 153 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University Press of Colorado
Colecția University Press of Colorado
Seria Mining the American West
Recenzii
"Gulliford's scalpel exposes the myths and miscalculations that caused the leaders of this country to launch a synfuels fiasco a decade ago."
—Stewart Udall, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior
—Stewart Udall, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior
"An important contribution to the New Western History, Gulliford's full and compassionate portrait of the social consequences of corporate irresponsibility provides Westerners with a prime opportunity to wrestle with the lessons of history."
—Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado at Boulder
—Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado at Boulder
Notă biografică
Andrew Gulliford is Director of the Center for Southwest Studies and professor of Southwest Studies and history at Fort Lewis College. He is the author of Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions (UPC).
Descriere
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.
Premii
- Colorado Book Award Winner, 2004