Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the

Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization (Global and International History)

"Marx once observed that ideas can have a material force in history.Â Dietrich's new book presents powerful evidence in support of that proposition. He shows how a set of ideas about a postcolonial state's right to control its natural resources, oil in particular, transformed the world economy between the late 1940s and the early 1970s.... The originalityÂ of the research, especially the excavation of the pivotal role played by transnational oil elites, makes the book an important resource for scholars of international history and international political economy. Indeed, no concise, thorough, and readable narrative of this period in oil history has been available until the publication of this book." Â -Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryÂ
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.
Country USA
Brand Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer Cambridge University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2017-06-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781316617892

Country	USA
Brand	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2017-06-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781316617892

Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization (Global and International History)

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