Machineries of Oil : An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran

Machineries of Oil An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran

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This book rethinks the politics of the Middle East through a study of the British-controlled oil industry in Iran between 1901 and 1954. Based on research in governmental and business archives in Iran, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it examines a series of disputes concerning petroleum e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Shafiee, Katayoun, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge The MIT Press 2018
Cambridge, Massachusetts : [2018]
Colección:Infrastructures series.
Materias:
British Petroleum Company.
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects > Iran.
Petroleum industry and trade > Iran > History.
Iran
British Petroleum
Oil
Infrastructure
Trans-national corporation
Democracy
Techno-science
Science and Technology Studies
Middle East
Socio-technical system
Oil Concession
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
British Admiralty
Sheikh Khaz'al
Standardization
Natural resources
Petroleum expertise
Oil cartel
Nationalism
communism
race
labor
oil nationalization
boycott
oil consortium
energy crisis
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423010306719
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Sumario:This book rethinks the politics of the Middle East through a study of the British-controlled oil industry in Iran between 1901 and 1954. Based on research in governmental and business archives in Iran, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it examines a series of disputes concerning petroleum exploration, property rights, the organization of labor, geological knowledge, accounting methods, oil distribution, and the calculation and control of profits. The goal is to understand how the construction of oil infrastructure reconfigured the local politics of the oil regions and how these arrangements in turn shaped the emergence of both the national state and the multinational oil corporation now known as BP. There has been no study of this kind, with the amount of rich, first-hand information Shafiee has gathered from Iran and elsewhere. Shafiee rethinks the role of oil in the early to mid-twentieth century as a non-human actor whose agency shapes and is shaped by the various techno-social transformations she discusses. She combines archival research with extensive field work at various sites in Iran--sources that are missing from the scholarship on both Iran and the oil industry.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.
ISBN:9780262344852
9780262344845

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