| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Sovereign Landlords in the Twentieth Century -- Prologue: Petrocapital and the Birth of the Petrostate -- Fifty-Fifty -- OPEC -- The Consumer's Decade -- The Energy Crisis -- The Oil Revolution -- Uneasy Dialogue -- The Failed Cartel -- Epilogue: The Crisis of the Petrostate |
| Summary |
The most comprehensive history of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and of its members, this study takes the reader from the formation of the first petrostate in the world, Venezuela, in the late 1920s, to the global ascent of petrostates and OPEC during the 1970s, to their crisis in the late-1980s and early- 1990s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed May 19, 2020) |
| Subject |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. fast (OCoLC)fst00534282 |
| Subject |
Petroleum industry and trade -- History
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Petroleum industry and trade.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191871306 |
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0191871303 |
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9780192569226 |
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0192569228 |
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