Vitalis Robert - America's Kingdom Mythmaking On The Saudi Oil Frontier - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: America's Kingdom Mythmaking On The Saudi Oil Frontier
Author(s): Vitalis Robert
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844673131
Pages: 408 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2009
Category: Petroleum & Oil Industries