Anointed with oil : how Christianity and crude made modern America / Darren Dochuk.
| Author/creator | Dochuk, Darren author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2019. |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | viii, 672 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Crude awakenings -- Rules of capture -- Worlds of wonder -- Dawn of the gusher age -- Carbon gospels -- Trust busting -- American plans -- Fightin' oil -- Petro wars -- Holy grounds -- Wildcat redemption -- The great game -- Crude reckonings -- Power shifts -- Approaching Armageddon -- The end of America's century. |
| Abstract | A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-642) and index. |
| Genre/form | Church history. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018057051 |
| ISBN | 9780465060863 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0465060862 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 40029230702 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BR517 .D55 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |