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

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Through innovative and expansive research, Oil Revolution analyzes the tensions faced and networks created by anti-colonial oil elites right through 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 after which within the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, these elites transformed the worldwide oil industry. Their transnational work started within the early 1950s and culminated within the 1973-4 energy crisis and within the 1974 declaration of a New International Economic Order within the United Nations. Christopher R. W. Dietrich examines how these elites brokered and balanced their ambitions by the use of get admission to to grease, a very powerful natural resource of the brand new era.

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