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He built up the company through 1868 to become the largest oil refinery firm in the world. This work has been selected by scholars as being cul. The history of the standard oil company was credited with hastening the breakup of standard oil, which happened in 1911. The history of the standard oil company 1904 edition open. The use of oil and gas has a long and fascinating history spanning thousands of years. Ida tarbell was a muckraking journalist whose book on the standard oil company helped bring about its breakup. The history of the standard oil company by ida tarbell. Originally serialized in nineteen parts in mcclures magazine, the book is a seminal example of muckraking, and inspired many other journalists to write about trusts, large.
The author documents the shenanigans and skulduggery of john d. As standard oil grew in wealth and power, it encountered great hostility not only from its competitors but from a vast segment of the public. Rockefeller and associates, controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the united states. Rockefeller, a greedy oil entrepreneur who at one point in history virtually cornered the petroleum market. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. The history of the standard oil company, volume 1 library of american civilization the history of the standard oil company. History of standard oil company by ida minerva tarbell goodreads. Rockefeller and henry flagler as a corporation in ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time.
The history of the standard oil company is a 1904 book by journalist ida tarbell. Tarbells the history of the standard oil company 1904 exposed the corrupt practices used to form a great industrial monopoly. Standard oil breakup in 1911, shortly before the creation of the federal reserve, the supreme court was alarmed at the incredible monopoly standard oil had come to hold. In 1892 the ohio supreme court ordered the trust dissolved, but it effectively continued to operate from headquarters in new york city. As a result, antitrust legislation forced the breakup of standard oil into various oil companies we recognize today. In standard oil ida tarbell wrote in her history of the standard oil company 1904, you could argue its existence from its effects, but you could not prove it.
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