Research Catalog

Title

Anointed with oil : how Christianity and crude made modern America / Darren Dochuk.

Author

Dochuk, Darren

Publication

• New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

viii, 672 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Business > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Petroleum > United States > History
• Petroleum industry and trade > United States > History
• Oil industries > United States > History
• RELIGION / Christianity / General
• Oil industries
• Petroleum
• Petroleum industry and trade
• United States > Church history
• United States

Genre/Form

• Church history.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-642) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 20-2434

ISBN

• 9780465060863
• 0465060862

LCCN

• 2018057051
• 40029230702

OCLC

1051137743

Author

Dochuk, Darren, author. Author

Title

Anointed with oil : how Christianity and crude made modern America / Darren Dochuk.

Publisher

New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Gender group: Men

Nationality/regional group: Indianans

Occupational/field of activity group: History teachers

Occupational/field of activity group: University and college faculty members

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-642) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME.

Other Standard Identifier

40029230702

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2434