Oil Shock

Elisabetta Bini is Research Fellow at the University of Trieste. She is the author of La potente benzina italiana: Guerra fredda e consumi di massa tra Italia, Stati Uniti e Terzo mondo (1945-1973) and the editor of Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in Petroleum (with Touraj Atabaki and Kaveh Ehsani). Giuliano Garavini is FIRB Research Fellow at the University of Padua and Senior Research Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author of After Empires: European Integration, Decolonization and the Challenge from the Global South, 1957-1986.Federico Romero is Professor of History of Post-War European Cooperation and Integration at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence.

• Introduction by Elisabetta Bini, Giuliano Garavini and Federico RomeroPART 1: ORIGINS1.The Shocking History of Oil by Bernard Mommer2.'First Class Brouhaha': Henry Kissinger and Oil Power in the 1970s by Christopher R. W. Dietrich3.Iraq and the Oil Cold War: A superpower struggle and the end of Iraq Petroleum Company, 1958-1972 by Philippe Tristani 4.Eight Squeezed Sisters: The Oil Majors and the Coming of the 1973 Oil Crisis by Francesco PetriniPART 2: CONSEQUENCES5.Shifting Sands: The 1973 Oil Shock and the Expansion of Non-OPEC Supply by Tyler Priest6.The OECD Oil Committee and the international search for reinforced energy consumer cooperation, 1972-1973 by Marloes Beers7.Learning to 'Recycle': Petrodollars and the West, 1973-75 by William Glenn Gray8.Energy Hinge? Oil Shock and Greening American Consumer Culture since the 1970s by Brian Black9.Energy and Soviet Economic Integration: Foundations of a Future Petrostate by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony10.Nuclear Energy and the Rise of Environmentalism in the United States by Martin V. Melosi