Significant role in the Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. He quitee, in 1941, famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940s and playing out during world war ii. We will look at how oil combined with religion helps create competing visions of American Authority on the global stage. If you recall prior to spring break, we had been spending time in the interwar period, looking at oil and some of these scand
Significant role in the Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. He quitee, in 1941, famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940s and playing out during world war ii. We will look at how oil combined with religion helps create competing visions of American Authority on the global stage. If you recall prior to spring break, we had been spending time in the interwar period, looking at oil and some of these scand
Professor Darren Dochuk teaches a class about mid20th century Oil Interests. He describes the expansion of he describes the east Texas Oil Boom and the expansion of u. S. Oil businesses abroad to places like saudi arabia and alberta, canada. He argues that religion played a significant role in the worldview and Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. In 1941, it was famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940