America's kingdom
Subtitle: mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier
By: Robert Vitalis
Series: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780804754460
Subjects: Arabian American Oil Company -- History; Saudi Aramco -- History; Petroleum industry and trade -- Saudi Arabia -- History; United States -- Foreign relations -- Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia -- Foreign relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-338) and index
Table of contents: title: Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states; title: Part 1. The nearest faraway place. Arabian frontiers; title: American camp; title: The wizards of Dhahran ; Part 2. Desire's empty quarter. Ayyam al-Kadalak (days of the Cadillac); title: Eye of the desert; title: El jefe rojo; title: America's kingdom