Oil revolution
Subtitle: anticolonial elites, sovereign rights, and the economic culture of decolonization
By: Christopher R.W. Dietrich, Fordham University
Series: Global and international history; Global and international history
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781107168619; 9781316617892
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Decolonization; Natural resources; Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; Petroleum industry and trade; Foreign relations; History
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The cash value of decoonization; title: One Periphery: The Creation of Sovereign Rights, 1949-1955; title: Past Concessions : The Arab League, Sovereign Rights, and OPEC, 1955-1960; title: Histories of Petroleum Colonization : Oil Elites and Sovereign Rights, 1960-1967; title: Rights and Failure : The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo; title: Nationalist Heroes : Imperial Withdrawal, the Cold War, and Oil Control, 1967-1970; title: A Turning Point of Our History : The Insurrectionists and Oil, 1970-1971; title: A Fact of Life : The Consolidation of Sovereign Rights, 1971-1973; title: The OPEC Syndrome : The Third World's Energy Crisis, 1973-1975.