Asphalt [electronic resource] : a history / Kenneth O'Reilly.

"Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O'Reilly, Kenneth (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Asphalt > History. Asphalt > Environmental aspects > History. Asphalt > Social aspects > History.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2021 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2021 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Asphalt: A History
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Nature : tar pits and asphalt volcanoes
Use : fired bricks and mummy wars
Faith : asphalt's dark ages
Triumph : the blacktop dawn
Duty : conquering poverty and mud, Reich and Rising Sun
Crusades : asphalt in the Cold War
Angles : terrorists, tricksters, Tea Partiers
Overburden : the oil sand century
Conclusion : the other black hole.