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Anointed with Oil
- How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
Engelsk Hardback
Anointed with Oil
- How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
Engelsk Hardback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
688
ISBN-13:
9780465060863
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0465060862
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2019
Længde:
55mm
Bredde:
244mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
Basic Books
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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