This volume provides a theoretical framework for understanding both the development of the international oil industry and the role played by oil in the emergence and evolution of US postwar hegemony. While providing a narrative account of the oil industry from its origins in the 19th century through to the present, the main focus is an analytic treatment of the postwar period. Drawing widely on political economy, international relations and the recent literature on the state, the book offers a comprehensive study of the connections between US hegemony and the international oil industry.
- ISBN10 0745606512
- ISBN13 9780745606514
- Publish Date 6 November 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Polity Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 270
- Language English