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Title: Petropolis and Environmental Protest in Cross-National Perspective: BeaumontPort Arthur, Texas, versus Minatitlan-Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Driving into Port Arthur or Beaumont, Texas, at night, you encounter a horizon ablaze with the lights of the strange cityscape that is the modern oil refinery. Near the mouth of the Neches River, the refinerys clumped and turreted towers, erected by some of the nations largest corporationsGulf, Texaco, and Mobilhave punctuated the skyline for over half a century. American historians now know much about the boomtowns that rapidly grew around early oil fields and also about the immense impacts of gasoline on twentieth-century American lives, but they sometimes fail to recall that refineries, toothe oil industrys version of the factoryhave cast a long historical shadow.

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Authors: Sellers, Christopher

Periodical (Full): Journal of American History

Issue: 1

Volume: 99

Pages: 111-123

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Topics: Health, Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

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