Download or read book The Anglo American Oil War written by Fiona Venn and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the least well-known and least discussed struggles of the 20th century was played out between the British and the Americans. From before World War I to the end of World War II, Great Britain and the United States vied with each other throughout the world to control the supply of oil. The Anglo-American Oil War examines this power struggle - identified by contemporaries as an oil war - and demonstrates how America's increasing dominance over the oilfields reflected wider shifts in international relations. During the first half of the 20th century, the strategic and economic importance of petroleum helped to define relations between the United States and Great Britain. While both governments sought to control oil resources within their own political sphere of influence, they frequently came into direct conflict over the control of oil. From the first hints of diplomatic discord over the course of the Mexican Revolution, through the British discovery of oil in Iraq, competition over the Kuwait concession, the oil strike in Masjid-e Sulaiman to the negotiation of the Anglo-American Oil Agreement in 1944 which, in theory, settled the dispute, the oil war offers a fascinating and revealing reflection of the transfer of hegemony from Great Britain to the United States
Download or read book A Century of War written by William Engdahl and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping account of oil's role in world politics and conflicts througout the 20th century and beyond.
Download or read book Oil War and Anglo American Relations written by Catherine E. Jayne and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican expropriation of British and American properties in March 1938 marked the first time any oil-producing country successfully stood up to foreign companies who claimed to own oil properties in that country and who had the support of their respective governments. Totally reliant on overseas oil at a time when war seemed imminent, British officials responsible for policy toward Mexico immediately emphasized the importance of preventing other oil-exporting nations from following Mexico's lead. Washington also sought to make an example of Mexico—one that would guarantee respect for U.S. businesses operating abroad. Although both Washington and London wanted to return to the pre-expropriation status quo, Washington was unwilling to work with London to achieve this goal, and Washington's attitude paralleled its reaction to British efforts to get U.S. support on certain defense issues during this critical period. The resulting Anglo-American strife over how to handle Mexico was also consistent with Anglo-American commercial competition and the oil rivalry in Mexico early in the century.
Download or read book Action by Petroleum Industry War Council on the Anglo American Oil Agreement December 6 1944 written by United States. Petroleum Administration for War and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Action by Petroleum Industry War Council on the Anglo American Oil Agreement December 6 1944 written by United States. Petroleum Administration for War and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo American Relations and Cold War Oil written by S. Marsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle East oil and Anglo-American special relations were among the most contentious issues during the Cold War. Oil is crucial to our understanding of Britain's and the USA's Cold War policies in the Middle East. This book presents an in-depth study of the issues of the period and the legacy of oil in the post Cold war era.
Download or read book In the Name of Oil written by Ivan L. G. Pearson and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable contribution to the existing literature on Anglo-American relations in general and on the International Relations of the Middle East in the 1950s in particular. The `special relationship' between Britain and the United States has been a persistent theme in public discourse since the Second World War but it is rarely treated with analytical rigour. It is refreshing therefore to come across a critical and unsentimental account of how this relationship works out in practice." Avi Shlaim, St. Antony's, Oxford --
Download or read book The Oil War written by Anton Mohr and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Background and Development of the Anglo American Oil Crisis 1908 1928 written by Virginia Ame Willis and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First World Oil War written by Timothy C. Winegard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity. Oil is also the root source of global conflict, toxicity and economic disparity. In his groundbreaking book The First World Oil War, Timothy C. Winegard argues that beginning with the First World War, oil became the preeminent commodity to safeguard national security and promote domestic prosperity. For the first time in history, territory was specifically conquered to possess oil fields and resources; vital cogs in the continuation of the industrialized warfare of the twentieth century."--
Download or read book Supremacy and Oil written by William Stivers and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anglo American Petroleum Agreement written by Independent Petroleum Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anglo American Petroleum Pact written by J. H. Carmical and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I written by Stephen J. Randall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First ed. (1985) publ. under title: United States foreign oil policy, 1919-1948.
Download or read book Oil Power and War written by Matthieu Auzanneau and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our lives—and illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the world’s easily and cheaply extractable reserves.
Download or read book Empire and Nationhood written by Mary Ann Heiss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951 prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh seized British oil holdings in Iran. The move set in motion four years of bitter political and strategic battles between a United Kingdom desperate for an economic rebound and an increasingly anti-Western regime in Teheran. The Eisenhower administration tried to broker a settlement, but Mossadegh was overthrown by an Anglo-American operation and replaced by the Shah. In this book, Mary Ann Heiss provides a detailed account of this turning point in cold war history. Drawing on a range of British and American documents, she provides an incisive political, economic, and cultural analysis of the first British and American effort to contain communism and radical Third World nationalism; the first American effort to bolster a crumbling British Empire; and the first effort by the CIA to overthrow a popular nationalist regime. This book is the full story not only of the shift from British to American dominance in the oil economies of the Middle East but also of the rise of nationalism in the context of the cold war.
Download or read book Oil in Anglo American Diplomatic Relations 1920 1928 written by Sister Gertrude Mary Gray and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books on petroleum rivalry treat the diplomacy incidentally because England and the United States were two great opponents in the struggle for foreign oil fields. There seems to be place, therefore, for a study of the diplomatic relations of the two nations in the postwar period when oil was needed for their mighty navies, and the treat of shortage brought a new period of intense oil imperialism. In view of the frantic fears expressed in early books, it may prove interesting to study the oil rivalry in relation to the other diplomatic problems of the period in order to evaluate their importance. The estimate of the effect of the 'oil war' on their relations may also have value. In any case, the frank diplomatic interchanges of the period reveal a spirit unique in international relations, and that in itself makes research on the subject worth while."--The Introduction, l.7-8.
