Oil Empire

Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia

Alison Fleig Frank

  • 2006 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
  • Co-Winner of the 2006 Orbis Prize for Polish Studies
  • 2006 Austrian Cultural Forum Book Prize

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation

Introduction

1. The Land where Salt and Oiil Flowed: Austrian Galicia

2. Glacian California: Battle for Land and Mineral Rights

3. Petroleum Fever: Foreign Entepreneurs and a New National Industry

4. The Boys Dan't Sleep at Home: Workers' Dream of Wealth and Independence

5. Oil City: The Epidemic of Overproduction

6. Blood of the Earth: The Crisis of World War I

7. A Hotly Disputed Territory: The Struggle for Galicia

Conclusion

Appendix: Data on Oil Production

Notes

Archival and Primary Sources

Index

  • Cover: Oil Empire
  • A photo of the author

Alison Fleig Frank is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.