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• How whaling shaped U.S. culture even after petroleum replaced it

  Aug 14, 2023 2:00 pm by Jodi HeckelCultural Exploration
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  U of I professor Jamie Jones examines the huge energy transition from whale oil to fossil fuels and the continuing influence of the whaling industry in her book 'Rendered Obsolete: The Afterlife of U.S. Whaling in the Petroleum Age.' 

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