LIBROS DEL AUTOR: diana davids hinton

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  • Wildcatters
    Diana Davids Hinton / Roger M. Olien / Roger MOlien
    In the 1970s and 1980s the Texas wildcatter was a recognizable figure in popular culture. Since then, the wildcatter’s role is less celebrated but still important, as shown in the new introduction to this edition of a book originally published in 1984 by Texas Monthly Press. Drawing heavily on oral histories, this book tells the story of the West Texas independents as a group, ...
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    20,12 €

  • Oil in Texas
    Diana Davids Hinton
    As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy that built cities, attracted out-of-state workers and companies, funded schools and universities, and ...
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    26,36 €

  • Oil and Ideology
    Diana Davids Hinton / Roger M. Olien / Roger MOlien
    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...
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    60,79 €

  • Easy Money
    Diana Davids Hinton / Roger M. Olien / Roger MOlien
    During the great oil speculations in the 1920s, both promoters and investors became victims of their common greed. Outlining the activities of several different promoters and drawing on business papers, federal court records, and local land records, the Oliens describe the legal and regulatory responses to fraud. Their fascinating story breaks new ground in American social and...
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    48,07 €