Crude State
Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and the Birth of the Petroleum Century
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 December 2026
- ISBN 9781496243478
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 photos, 1 illustration, 2 maps, index 700
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Long description:
Oil companies sank the first commercial oil wells in Indian Territory between 1895 and 1901. Crude State traces the origins of the industry that sprang up in the aftermath, focusing on the settler culture that helped foster the growing petroleum industry, the various political entities that attempted to govern oil extraction, and the environmental changes and social tensions that intensive oil production created in the region into the 1940s.
Throughout this period, Indian Territory and Oklahoma oilfields were among the most productive not only in the United States but around the world. But territorial and state officials often sought to ensure that the most socially and politically desirable groups of extractors maintained favored access to crude-bearing land. Lawmakers touted regulatory measures as a bulwark against the monopoly power of consolidated corporations, outspokenly condemning the multinational status of the oil corporations they intended to contain even as they sought to erect exclusionary policies to stymie the arrival of foreign-born migrants, undermine the flourishing of Black residents, and eliminate the sovereign power of tribal nations. These political goals became increasingly conjoined in the era surrounding World War I, when a new settler state was founded just as petroleum's force in public life began to take on real significance.
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Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Introduction
Chapter One – Hydrocarbons and Civilization: Oil, Race, and Allotment in Indian Territory
Chapter Two – Petro Citizens: Leasing Allotted Oil Lands during World War I
Chapter Three – The Politics of an Oil Tank: Sub-National Power in the Hydrocarbon Age
Chapter Four – The Pipeline to Violence: White Workers and ""Black Gold""
Chapter Five – Oil at the ""White Man's Price"": The Tulsa Race Massacre as Oilfield Violence
Chapter Six – Competing Sovereignties in the Modern Age of Oil: The Great Depression and the Creation of the Interstate Oil Compact
Conclusion
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