Oil Revolution : Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Global and International History
ISBN-10
1316617890
ISBN-13
9781316617892
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 16th, 2017
Print length
366 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.20 x 3.10 cms
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Oil Revolution examines the anti-colonial diplomats, lawyers, and economists from the oil-producing nations in the Middle East and Latin America who forged a new economic culture of decolonization after World War II. Their efforts transformed the oil industry but had devastating consequences during the energy crises of the 1970s.
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.
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