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• W4235229770 abstract "Crude Schisms Thomas G. Andrews (bio) Darren Dochuk, Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 672 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. Not long after the publication of my first book, the Huntington Library invited me to give a talk as part of a larger symposium on the history of the U.S. West. I no longer recall whether it was their idea or mine, but the subject I endeavored to explore in my 2010 remarks seemed straightforward enough: a big-picture take on the West’s tumultuous energy history. I had devoted most of the preceding decade to researching the social and environmental history of the Colorado coalfields in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, so I already had plenty to say about the West’s critical transition from water, wind, wood, and muscle power to fossil fuels. Having wearied of coal and its gritty past, I looked forward to the chance the Huntington gig offered to get myself up to speed on a different but ostensibly related historiography, the literature examining petroleum’s place in the U.S. past. The oil industry beckoned to me, as it had before to so many other westerners. But instead of lighting out for fresh strikes in the oil patches of Texas, California, or Oklahoma, I headed instead to the calmer confines of my university’s library. The stacks, to my surprise, held only a smattering of titles on oil history, so I had no choice but to order up additional books through my regional library consortium. My haul of books grew by the day. Yet in historiographical research, as in so many other things, quantity offers no guarantee of quality. The historiography of the American petroleum industry, I was learning, mostly hewed to a couple of well-worn and overlapping grooves: corporate histories, especially of Standard Oil and other monster firms; economic and political studies of regulation and policy at the state and federal levels; and neo-muckraking exposés of Big Oil’s outsized influence over everything from U.S. foreign policy to the emissions standards enacted in response to the oil crises of the 1970s. I found much of this work impressive, with beefy but accessible tomes like Dan Yergin’s The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1990) and Ron Chernow’s Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (2004) [End Page 180] joining more specialized treatises such as Brian Black’s Petrolia: The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom (2000), Diana Davis Oliens and Roger M. Oliens’s Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945 (2002), and Paul Sabin’s Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940 (2004). Overall, though, I found the historiography on petroleum in the U.S. underdeveloped—often narrow in scope, technical in focus, and disconnected from broader themes and questions in historical studies. Darren Dochuk’s Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America shows just how big a difference a decade can make. A huge outpouring of recent work, including influential books by Andrew Needham, Christopher Jones, Peter Shulman, Timothy Mitchell, and many others, has signaled the emergence of energy history and energy humanities as full-fledged scholarly fields. Petroleum historiography has developed apace. Anointed with Oil is at once firmly rooted in the older literature on oil history, and productively engaged with new work in energy history. Far more important, though, Dochuk’s book makes a massively original contribution by revealing the shared history of religion, politics, and the oil industry in the U.S. from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Dochuk’s interpretation is sweeping, forceful, and nuanced. Premised upon sleuthing from archives ranging from the obvious (e.g., the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York) to the out-of-the-way (e.g., the Cameron Townsend Archives in Waxhaw, North Carolina), and written in prose so mellifluous that it buoys the reader through more than 150 years and 560 pages with consummate ease, Anointed with Oil lays out a compelling argument in response to a pair of incisive and consequential questions: How..." @default.
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