Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization

ISBN-13: 9781107168619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 366 str.

Christopher R. W. Dietrich

Opis

Oil Revolution chronicles the rise and fall of anti-colonial oil elites who forged a new international culture of economic dissent from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Recenzje

'Dietrich provides a rich history of ideas, linking the work of the new elite on the nature of oil concessions to an array of European and American intellectuals concerned with international law and economic development, such as Albert O. Hirschman and Gunnar Myrdal … There is much to recommend in this work and its careful construction of the new international arena from an alternative perspective.' Karl Ittmann, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

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.