University of North Carolina Press
Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry
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- Diana Davids Hinton
- University of North Carolina Press
- Paperback
- 9780807848357
- 9.26 X 6.14 X 0.85 inches
- 1.1 pounds
- Business & Economics > Business Ethics
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
By turning a critical eye on sources that have often been accepted at face value and examining the self-interests of oil industry critics, the authors produce a more balanced, complex picture of the industry than has previously been offered. Their case study of the impact of ideology offers a striking example of how business must be understood through its cultural context and offers a new approach to understanding problems of regulation and reform.
Author Bio
Growing up on Long Island in New York, Diana Davids Hinton never thought much about oil drilling. “The closest we got to oil and gas was the local Exxon station,” she says.
But upon moving to the Midland-Odessa area in 1973, “I learned it sure wasn’t easy to do 19th-century British history in the middle of Texas,” said Hinton, who wrote her dissertation on the seventh Earl of Carlisle, a 19th-century Briton. So she made the natural move to study oil, and she found herself in the midst of one of the great boom-and-bust cycles of all time.
As a history professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, she has co-written two books on the colorful history of Texas oil. Another one on the Barnett Shale is under contract with TCU Press and, she hopes, will be out on the shelves in two years. Yet another project on Texas' post-World War II petroleum history is also in the works.
Diana Davids Hinton teaches at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.
Source: The Texas Tribune
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