Oil Empire : : Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia / / Alison Fleig Frank.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Frank, Alison Fleig,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies ; 149
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain a modern...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Translation
• Abbreviations
• Map: The Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867–1914
• Introduction
• 1 The Land Where Salt and Oil Flowed: Austrian Galicia
• 2 Galician California: Battles for Land and Mineral Rights
• 3 Petroleum Fever: Foreign Entrepreneurs and a New National Industry
• 4 The Boys Don’t Sleep at Home: Workers’ Dreams of Wealth and Independence
• 5 Oil City: The Epidemic of Overproduction
• 6 Blood of the Earth: The Crisis of War
• 7 A Hotly Disputed Territory: The Struggle for Eastern Galicia
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Data on Oil Production
• Notes
• Archival and Primary Sources
• Index