Oil Powers - A History of the U.s.-Saudi Alliance

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia's huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power and the national-security state.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Arabic Transliteration
Introduction: Jeddah, 1974
1. Wheels of Empire
2. Roads to Profit
3. Ignition
4. Machines in Motion
5. The Cutoff
6. Unmoored
7. Turning Right
8. Ascent
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Victor McFarland (PhD, Yale) is assistant professor at the University of Missouri and a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. This would be his first book.

Summary

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power and the national-security state.

Additional text

Erudite and eloquent, Oil Powers is required reading for all those who are interested in the history of U.S.-Saudi relations, oil politics, and the international political economy.

Product details

• Authors: Victor McFarland
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780231197274
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19727-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Politics & government, Regional Studies, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history, Arabian Peninsula, History of the Americas, US History