Crude Capitalism
Subtitle: - Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: September 17 2024
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-1839763427
First sentence: Nearly four decades ago, a large team of scientists from around the world launched a major global research programme called the International Geosphere -Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: vii; title: 1. Approaching Oil; title: 1; title: 2. Petro-Power: The Rise of the US Oil Industry; title: 27; title: 3. The Middle East and the Seven Sisters; title: 53; title: 4. A Russian Interlude: From Baku to the Bolsheviks; title: 75; title: 5. Post-war Transitions I: Europes Shift to Oil; title: 89; title: 6. Post-war Transitions II: Anti-colonial Revolt and OPEC; title: 113; title: 7. Petrochemicals and the Emergence of a Synthetic World; title: 135; title: 8. A Moment of Rupture: Myths and Consequences of the First Oil Shock; title: 155; title: 9. US Power, Oil, and Global Finance; title: 179; title: 10. Oil and Capital in Post-Soviet Russia; title: 201; title: 11. A Sorority Reborn: The Western Supermajors, 1990-2005; title: 229; title: 12. NOCs and the New East-East Hydrocarbon Axis; title: 251; title: 13. Confronting the Climate Emergency; title: 275; title: Index; title: 315