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America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Updated)
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Title: America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Updated)
Author: Robert Vitalis
ISBN: 9781844673131
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
E 1637977
Publisher Description:
Now newly updated, America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal" oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and Aramco quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise. From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps, to the consolidation of America's Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today, this is a meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.
Author: Robert Vitalis
ISBN: 9781844673131
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
E 1637977
Publisher Description:
Now newly updated, America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal" oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and Aramco quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise. From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps, to the consolidation of America's Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today, this is a meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.
