Refining the Desert: The Politics of Wealth, Industrialization, and Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry
This dissertation describes seventy years of West Texas oil expansion and decline juxtaposed against a growing environmental and public health crisis. It tracks the experiences of industry employees, demonstrating that their understanding of oil industrialization and the environmental cost of econom...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2017
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639570 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1227&context=etd |