Brian Black is associate professor in the departments of history and environmental studies at Penn State University, Altoona. He is the author of PETROLIA: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom.

Students looking for well-documented fact bites for research papers will find the book useful….The book begins and ends with a fascinating narrative on the trashing and subsequent restoration of Niagara Falls in the 19th century. Recommended. Public and general libraries, and reference collections serving lower-level undergraduates.

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Wonder of NatureExpanding Colonial SystemsVariations on the Agricultural IdealTechnology Leads the DayCorridors of TradeSpeaking for NatureCivil WarThe Ethic of ExtractionFactories in the FieldCities and Worker ReformPrioritizing NatureEpilogue: The New Niagara and the Preservation Ethic

Brian Black is associate professor in the departments of history and environmental studies at Penn State University, Altoona. He is the author of PETROLIA: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom.

Students looking for well-documented fact bites for research papers will find the book useful….The book begins and ends with a fascinating narrative on the trashing and subsequent restoration of Niagara Falls in the 19th century. Recommended. Public and general libraries, and reference collections serving lower-level undergraduates.

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Wonder of NatureExpanding Colonial SystemsVariations on the Agricultural IdealTechnology Leads the DayCorridors of TradeSpeaking for NatureCivil WarThe Ethic of ExtractionFactories in the FieldCities and Worker ReformPrioritizing NatureEpilogue: The New Niagara and the Preservation Ethic