Machineries of Oil : An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran /

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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Autor Principal: Shafiee, Katayoun (auteur.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Properties of petroleum
  • Petroleum knowledge
  • Calculating technologies in crisis
  • What kind of oil worker does an oil industry require to survive?
  • Assembling intractability: managing nationalism, combating nationalization
  • Long-distance machineries of oil
  • Conclusion : petroleum collectives: translating the power of oil into politics.