America''s Kingdom : Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1844673138
ISBN-13
9781844673131
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 2nd, 2009
Print length
408 Pages
Weight
582 grams
Dimensions
20.60 x 13.70 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
International relationsPetroleum & oil industriesPetroleum, oil and gas industries
Ksh 5,200.00
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Debunks the many myths that surround the United States' special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as 'the deal': oil for security. This book shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and ARAMCO quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise.
Now newly updated, America’s Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States’s special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as “the deal”: oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and Aramco quickly became America’s largest single overseas private enterprise. From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps, to the consolidation of America’s Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today, this is a meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.
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