America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier Tapa dura - 2006 - 1st Edición
de Robert Vitalis
Descripción de la solapa
America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia, or what is less reverently known as "the deal": oil for security. Taking aim at the long-held belief that the Arabian American Oil Company, ARAMCO, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows that nothing could be further from the truth. What is true is that oil led the U.S. government to follow the company to the kingdom. Eisenhower agreed to train Ibn Sa'ud's army, Kennedy sent jets to defend the kingdom, and Lyndon Johnson sold it missiles. Oil and ARAMCO quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise.
Beginning with the establishment of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps in the 1930s, the book goes on to examine the period of unrest in the 1950s and 1960s when workers challenged the racial hierarchy of the ARAMCO camps while a small cadre of progressive Saudis challenged the hierarchy of the international oil market. The defeat of these groups led to the consolidation of America's Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today.
This is a gripping story that covers more than seventy years, three continents, and an engrossing cast of characters. Informed by first hand accounts from ARAMCO employees and top U.S. government officials, this book offers the true story of the events on the Saudi oil fields. After America's Kingdom, mythmakers will have to work harder on their tales about ARAMCO being magical, honorable, selfless, and enlightened.
Detalles
- Título America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
- Autor Robert Vitalis
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 392
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Stanford University Press, California
- Fecha de publicación 2006-10-10
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780804754460 / 0804754462
- Peso 1.43 libras (0.65 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.26 x 6.32 x 1.13 pulgadas (23.52 x 16.05 x 2.87 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Arab World
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Saudi Arabia - Foreign relations - United, United States - Foreign relations - Saudi
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006018541
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.766
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Library Journal, 09/01/2006, Page 165
- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 125
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2007, Page 1
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