HIST 1088 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cultural Capital, Texaco, La Brea Tar Pits
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The oil industry - petroleum dated to 1859, small town of titusville, pennsylvania. Oil boom (exam) repeated over and over again into the modern era commodity up and down cycles the societies for gold rushes also take place in the early petroleum industry extraordinarily rapid expansion of industry in pennsylvania. Texas oil booms the reason the us plays a role doesn"t just do with underground resources. Us sees the booms and busts, culture to this oil boom town of freer texas looks just like a silver boom town or gold boom town in california sense of openness. Oil in califonia & california-arabian standard oil co. Us has the largest oil companies because trust busting hasn"t happened, near monopolists. The bicycle (exam) originally had no pedals or gears the origins of the bicycle are traditionally traced to the velocipede created by baron karl von.
