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Manna From Hell: Petroleum and the Inscription of Angeleno World Power, 1890s-1930s

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*[DO NOT EDIT: MOVED ON 24 SEPT 2018] For Clovis and all  later Angelenos, the black pools of oil-tar at La Brea were the Mirror of Narcissus: a dark window into the city's ancient underworld.  Vanity and hedonistic pleasure, utopian dreams, material abundance, all these entice the global migrant to Los Angeles.  The reflection in the pools of La Brea is also a window onto the underworld of humanity. Oil's vast riches also bring out the will to power and flames of war.  Oil is Manna from Hell: a rich and foul excrescence from the God Pluto.  International struggle for oil dominated the 20th century, killing tens of millions in World Wars, Cold Wars and Terror Wars.

Oil production was first of the globalizing industries of Los Angeles.  Developed first in the 1890s, oil output from the region boomed again in the 1920s.  This was a tumultuous period of revolutionary upheaval, world war, and rapid industrial development which increasingly depended on oil.  The Los Angeles Basin held major deposits of petroleum, accumulated from millions of year of fecund biomass.  The Los Angeles regional political culture took shape as the struggles of the period took place.  This essay focuses first on the lives and actions of two barons: Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935) and J. Paul Getty (1892–1976). 

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  1. Edward L. Doheny: Borderland Oil Baron, 1890s-1920s
  2. J. Paul Getty: From USC to Oxford to Sutton Place.
  3. Oil of the People, by the People, and for the People: Petropolitical Schemes

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