Christopher R. W. Dietrich

Oil Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through innovative and expansive research, Oil Revolution analyzes the tensions faced and networks created by anti-colonial oil elites during the age of decolonization following World War II. This new community of elites stretched across Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Algeria, and Libya. First through their western educations and then in the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, these elites transformed the global oil industry. Their transnational work began in the early 1950s and culminated in the 1973-4 energy crisis and in the 1974 declaration of a New International Economic Order in the United Nations. Christopher R. W. Dietrich examines how these elites brokered and balanced their ambitions via access to oil, the most important natural resource of the modern era.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316733738
• Artikelnr.: 49272013

Autorenporträt

Christopher R. W. Dietrich is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University, New York. He has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Historical Association, the National History Center, Yale University, Connecticut, the University of Texas, Austin, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The cash-value of decolonization; 1. One periphery: the creation of sovereign rights
1949-55; 2. Past concessions: the Arab League
sovereign rights
and OPEC
1955-60; 3. Histories of petroleum colonization: oil elites and sovereign rights
1960-7; 4. Rights and failure: the 1967 Arab oil embargo; 5. Nationalist heroes: imperial withdrawal
the Cold War
and oil control
1967-70; 6. A turning point of our history: the insurrectionists and oil
1970-1; 7. A fact of life: the consolidation of sovereign rights
1971-3; 8. The OPEC syndrome: the Third World's energy crisis
1973-5; Conclusion. Dead by its own law? Decolonization
sovereignty
and culture.