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America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Updated)
by America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Updated)
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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.
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- Verso Books Brand
- Mar 1, 2009 Pub Date:
- 1844673138 ISBN-10:
- 9781844673131 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 416.0 pages Paperback
- 9 in * 1.04 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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