Oil
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745649252
Description: Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. In this in-depth primer to the world's wealthiest industry, Gavin Bridges and Philippe Le Billon take a fresh look at the contemporary geopolitics of oil.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The nature of a political resource; title: Capturing oil; title: Marketing oil; title: Securing oil; title: Developing through oil; title: Governing oil; title: Better and beyond : the future of oil; title: Selected readings