Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia

From: Business History Review | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. By Alison Fleig Frank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xx + 343 pp. Maps, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01887-7.

Reviewed by Holly Case

At a time when oil production, refinement, and transport so transparently affect the exigencies of politics, Alison Frank's oil Empire is a reminder that oil's past is as deep and dark as its geological home. The focus of her masterful and engaging historical study, Austrian Galicia, is not a place we now associate with oil production, but during ...

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