Steven G. Galpern

Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East

Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944 1971

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Produktbeschreibung

This book connects the unravelling of the British Empire in the Middle East to the decline of sterling and British oil policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781107657182
• ISBN-10: 1107657180
• Artikelnr.: 39088527

Autorenporträt

Steven G. Galpern received his PhD in history from the University of Texas, Austin, after which he worked for five years as a historian at the US Department of State, where he currently works as a Middle East Analyst.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Anglo-American conflict over oil and the sterling area
2. Sterling and Britain's confrontation with nationalism in Iran
3. The Suez crisis: a sterling rescue operation gone wrong
4. Kuwait's surplus oil revenue: the benefit and threat to sterling
Conclusion: the devaluation of 1967 and the end of empire.