Jonathan Kuiken

Oil for Britain (eBook, PDF)

The United Kingdom and the Remaking of the International Oil Industry, 1957-1988

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Produktbeschreibung

While famous for its liberal policy towards oil and gas production, both before and after the discovery of North Sea oil and gas, the period from 1957-1988 actually saw the UK respond to shifts in power from the major oil companies to the oil-producing states, many of them in OPEC, by building up its competency regarding oil matters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000905274
• Artikelnr.: 68011701

Autorenporträt

Jonathan R. Kuiken is an associate professor of History at Wilkes University. He is the author of articles such as "Ignoring, countering and undercutting OPEC: Britain, BP, Shell and the shifting global energy order, 1960-1986" (2020) and 'La persistence d'empire? Le rôle des compagnies pétrolières britanniques en Afrique postcoloniale' (2017). He received his doctorate from Boston College in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. A more active phase: Upholding the status quo in a changing world of oil
1957-1962 2. Cartels and Chaos: Declining State and Company Power
1962-1968 3. Safety in diversity: the search for new sources of oil
1957-1969 4. Profits Abroad
Taxes at Home: Oil and Britain's Finances
1957-1968 5. Participating in Defeat: Shifts in the Balance of Power
1968-1972 6. Facing Down the "Oil Weapon": Doomed efforts at consumer cooperation
1971-1973 7. Partners and Rivals: Battles Abroad
Battles at Home
1968-1973 8. Britain First?: Weathering the "oil shock" and its aftermath
1973-1974 9. Oil in the National Interest: The Troubled Birth of BNOC
1973-1976 10. Preferring to dismember it: Thatcher
the demise of BNOC
and the embrace of a global oil industry
1978-1988 11. Conclusion