Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry

by Roger M. Olien, Diana Davids Olien, Diana Davids Hinton

Book Overview

Traditional accounts of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, as well as recent best-selling books on the subject, still accept without question charges of unethical and anti-competitive behavior by the American oil industry. In this pathbreaking synthesis of cultural, business, gender, and intellectual history, Roger and Diana Davids Olien explore how this negative image of the petroleum industry was created--and how this image in turn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848352
• ISBN13: 9780807848357
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"