Oil, Power, and War

A Dark History

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs"Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.”—NatureThe 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-01-20
Mått153 x 229 x 44 mm
Vikt934 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor672
FörlagChelsea Green Publishing Co
MedarbetareHeinberg,Richard
ISBN9781603589789

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Matthieu Auzanneau is the director of The Shift Project, a European think tank focusing on energy transition and the resources required to make the shift to an economy free from fossil fuel dependence, and also from greenhouse gas emissions. Previously he was a journalist, based in France, and mostly writing for Le Monde. He continues to write his Le Monde blog, Oil Man, which he describes as “a chronicle of the beginning of the end of petroleum.” The original French edition of this book, Or Noir: La grande histoire du pétrole, was awarded the Special Prize of the French Association of Energy Economists in 2016. Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. He is the author of several influential books on resource depletion including Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century Of Declines.

ForewordIntroductionI. . . to 1945Germination1 A Seed Is Planted2 John D. Rockefeller, the Power of Petroleum, and the Spiral of Expansion3 Sharing the World Market: The First Attempts, at the Cradle of Royal Dutch Shell4 The Automobile: American Oil Regenerates Capitalism5 The Tank: American Oil Feeds the Victorious Fighting Machines of the Great War6 The Roaring 1920s: Consolidating the New Empires7 Birth of a Petrol-Nation: Iraq8 The Majors Band Together: A Secretly Planned Industry Weathers the Great Depression Unscathed9 The Persistent Alliance of Big Oil with Nazi Germany10 The Enablers of the Second World WarII1945-1970Spring11 After Yalta: The United States and Saudi Arabia Seal their Alliance12 Washington Gives Absolute Power to American Petroleum13 Big Oil's Planetary Empire and the Rockefellers' Hegemonic Ambitions14 Big Oil Asserts Itself: A Matrix of Political Power in Washington15 Saudi Arabia and Gabon: Nations Spoiled by Oil16 Cartel Against Cartel: OPEC's Painful Emergence 17 The Leapfrog Effect: Algeria, Biafra, and Libya18 The Golden Childhood of the Oil-Made Man III1970-1998Summer19 OPEC: Scapegoat for a 1973 Oil Crisis Made in the USA?20 Oil Money: After Neocolonialism, a Perilous Symbiosis21 The Second Oil Crisis: A Deadly Vortex of Power Is Unleashed Around the Persian Gulf 22 The Long Iran-Iraq War: A Lose-Lose Game Orchestrated by the Reagan Administration?23 The Oil Countershock: The Frenzy of the Reagan Years, the Collapse of the USSR, and the BCCI Scandal24 Dear Saddam: The Gulf War, the Fate of the Iraqi People, and the Long-Term Interests of Uncle Sam25 Planetary Harvest: The Time of Scandals26 Grandeur and Decadence: The Explosion of Opulence, Misery, and the Human Footprint IV1998-20??Autumn27 Oil's Future Decline Is Announced: The Persian Gulf Returns to the Center of the Chessboard28 September 11, 2001: A Rogue Pearl Harbor 29 Shocks and Ruptures: The Occupation of Iraq and Crisis of 200830 Winter, Tomorrow?AfterwordAppendicesThe Oil CorridorThe Price of Crude Oil: 1861-December 2016World Production of Petroleum and Substitutes: Historical and ProjectedProduction by Region, 1965-2013The Oil MajorsThe Persian Gulf GiantsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex