Title Oil Revolution : Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization / Christopher R. W. Dietrich

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages) : PDF file(s) Series Global and International History Global and international history. Summary 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 Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Aug 2017) Subject Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. fast (OCoLC)fst00534282 Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century Natural resources -- Political aspects -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century Decolonization -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century Decolonization. Diplomatic relations. Natural resources -- Political aspects. Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects. SUBJECT Developing countries -- Foreign relations Subject Developing countries. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316717493 1316717496

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