Oil Revolution - Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, Economic Culture of

Informationen zum Autor Christopher R. W. Dietrich is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University, New York. He has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Historical Association, the National History Center, Yale University, Connecticut, the University of Texas, Austin, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The cash-value of decolonization; 1. One periphery: the creation of sovereign rights, 1949-55; 2. Past concessions: the Arab League, sovereign rights, and OPEC, 1955-60; 3. Histories of petroleum colonization: oil elites and sovereign rights, 1960-7; 4. Rights and failure: the 1967 Arab oil embargo; 5. Nationalist heroes: imperial withdrawal, the Cold War, and oil control, 1967-70; 6. A turning point of our history: the insurrectionists and oil, 1970-1; 7. A fact of life: the consolidation of sovereign rights, 1971-3; 8. The OPEC syndrome: the Third World's energy crisis, 1973-5; Conclusion. Dead by its own law? Decolonization, sovereignty, and culture....

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• Authors: Christopher R. W. Dietrich, Christopher R. W. (Fordham University Dietrich, Dietrich Christopher R. W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107168619
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16861-9
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Global and International History; Global and International Histo; Global and International History; Global and International Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Venezuela, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Middle East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, c 1950 to c 1959, Middle Eastern history, General and world history, North Africa, c 1960 to c 1969, History and Archaeology, Petroleum & oil industries, Energy industries and utilities, OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)