Brian Black

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Brian Black is affiliated with the following schools: University of Kansas, Pennsylvania State University, New York University

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According to Wikipedia, Brian Black is an American professor of history and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona and head of its department of Arts and Humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1988 from Gettysburg College, a Master of Arts in American Civilization in 1991 from New York University and a Doctor of Education degree in American Studies from the University of Kansas in 1996.

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Brian Black's Published Works

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Energy and Civilization: A History (2018) (90)
Fighting Traffic (2009) (52)
Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (1997) (39)
Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (2012) (39)
Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (2000) (35)
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. By Carol Sheriff. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. xviii + 251 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $21.00 (1997) (16)
Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s. The “Crisis of Confidence” Speech of July 15, 1979: A Brief History with Documents. By Daniel Horowitz. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2005. xix+ 203 pp. Notes, elected bibliography, index. $13.95 paper (2006) (14)
The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security and Independence (2012) (14)
Oil for Living: Petroleum and American Conspicuous Consumption (2012) (14)
Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus: Re-creating the Industrial Process through the Landscape of Pennsylvania's Oil Boom (1998) (13)
Nature's Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds (2012) (10)
Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life (2006) (9)
Organic planning: the intersection of nature and economic planning in the early Tennessee Valley Authority (2002) (7)
On BP's Deepwater Horizon Live Video Feed (2010) (6)
Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. By Paul Sabin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii, 307 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-24198-3.) (2007) (6)
Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History (2013) (5)
The Nature of Preservation: The Rise of Authenticity at Gettysburg (2012) (5)
The Complex Environmentalist: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Ethos of New Deal Conservation (2005) (4)
Authority in the Valley: TVA in Wild River and the Popular Media, 1930–1940 (1995) (4)
Brian Black on the Copse at Gettysburg (2004) (4)
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (2013) (4)
On a Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2013 (2015) (3)
A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture and Ecology (2014) (3)
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption by Simon Pirani (review) (2020) (2)
The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938. By Myrna I. Santiago. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00 (2008) (2)
"A Triumph of Individualism": The Rule of Capture and the Ethic of Extraction in Pennsylvania's Oil Boom (1999) (2)
Recasting the Unalterable Order of Nature: Photography and the First Oil Boom (1997) (2)
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2011) (2)
Thickening Our Stories: Models for Using Environmental History as Context. (2003) (2)
Great debates in American environmental history (2008) (1)
Energy Hinge? Oil Shock and Greening American Consumer Culture since the 1970s (2016) (1)
Referendum on Planning: Imaging River Conservation in the 1938 Tva Hearings (2005) (1)
Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America (2013) (1)
Making Oil Essential: Emerging Patterns of Petroleum Culture in the United States During the Era of the Great War (2018) (1)
Sea TENTACLE: Track, Engage, & Neutralize Threats - Asymmetric & Conventional - in the Littoral Environment (2006) (1)
Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment (2008) (1)
IDEA: what does an energy transition look like? (2020) (0)
American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana’s Wetlands. By Jason P. Theriot. (2015) (0)
Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America, by Ann Norton Greene (2011) (0)
Paradise Valley, Nevada: The People and Buildings of an American Place by Howard Wight Marshall (1997) (0)
Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment (review) (2008) (0)
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xx + 408 pp. ISBN 0-520-21748-7, $34.95 (2003) (0)
Book Reviews: The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917, by William Irwin. (1998) (0)
The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Animals, History, Culture Series. xi +242 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, index. $50.00 (2008) (0)
Beyond Nature's Nation: The Emergence of a Global Environmental Policy (2000) (0)
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. By Andreas Malm (2017) (0)
Harpoon to Derrick. Lessons from an American Energy Transition of the 1860's (2020) (0)
Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945 (review) (2005) (0)
Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry. By Hugh S. Gorman. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001. xvi, 451 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-884836-74-7. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 1-884836-75-5.) (2003) (0)
Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. xx + 347 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-11038-8, $32.50 (cloth) (2008) (0)
Energy Development on Public Land in the United States (2013) (0)
Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 (review) (2004) (0)
Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration (2005) (0)
From nature's nation to Shamu on a stick (1999) (0)
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption. By Simon PiraniCarbon Ideologies, Volume I: No Immediate Danger. By William T. VollmannCarbon Ideologies, Volume II: No Good Alternative. By William T. Vollmann (2020) (0)
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (review) (2003) (0)
An Environmental History of the Civil War (2023) (0)
Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry (review) (2001) (0)
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. By John Brinckerhoff Jackson. Illustrations, notes, index and Landscape in America. Edited by George F. Thompson. Illustrations, index (1996) (0)
SMITH, Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America’s Wilderness (2007) (0)
David Vaught. Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920 . Baltimore, Md.:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6221-3, $38.00. (2001) (0)
Book Reviews: Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852, by David L. Schuyler. (1997) (0)
Energy and Transportation (2010) (0)
Shale Boom: The Barnett Shale Play and Fort Worth. By Diana Davids Hinton (2019) (0)
Environmental and Energy Policy (2020) (0)
Fueling the “American Century” (2020) (0)
Brian Black on the Iconography of Crude (2009) (0)
Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia. By Kathryn Shively Meier. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 219. $39.95.) (2016) (0)
American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 by Jeremy Zallen (review) (2020) (0)
A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana by John T. Arnold (review) (2021) (0)
The Atlas of US and Canadian Environmental History. Edited by Char Miller. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2003. 256 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, diagrams, index. Cloth $150.00 (2004) (0)

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