Oil pricing and the challenge of an Arab oil trans-nationalism: Abdallah al-Tariqi and Arab oil globalization
Economics was a major field of struggle for anti-imperialist oil experts and activists.
Pétrole
Du bidon à la pompe : la vente du pétrole en province et ses contestations (Côte-d’Or, 1877-1939)
Cet article éclaire l’arrivée du pétrole en France, et plus particulièrement en Côte-d’Or. Alors que les premiers fûts sont importés en 1861 sur les côtes normandes, la première trace d’un dépôt de pétrole dans ce département rural organisé autour de la ville de Dijon n’apparaît pas avant 1877.
Texas, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and White-Supremacist Energies: Petroleum Workers and Anti-Black Violence in the Mid-Continent Oilfields
This article examines the early twentieth-century oil workforce in the Mid-Continent petroleum region of the United States, focusing on the centrality of white supremacy within the oil industry.
From the Allegheny to the Irrawaddy: American Oil Drillers in Colonial Burma
Colonial Burma was once a major center of world petroleum production in the early 20th Century. A notable group in the oilfields of Burma was the working-class American oil drillers, most of whom with ties to the oil regions of western Pennsylvania.
Documentary Sources on Hydrocarbon Exploitation in Franco’s Spain: The ENCASO Archives
The Empresa Nacional Calvo Sotelo de Combustibles Líquidos y Lubricantes (ENCASO) was a company created in 1942 within Spain’s National Institute of Industry (INI) by Minister Juan Antonio Suanzes, in an effort to control the country’s strategic energy sector.
Stains of Empire: accumulation by contamination in the Gulf
La découverte du pétrole au Moyen-Orient a contribué à l’éclosion et à l’enrichissement massif du complexe militaro-industriel.
Energy imperialism? Introduction to the special issue
Dans ce numéro spécial, nous réfléchissons aux relations entre systèmes énergétiques et impérialisme à travers différents prismes : le rôle du pétrole dans les relations internationales ; l'économie mondiale et le monde postcolonial ; les déchets créés par l'industrie pétrolière ; les relations e
Transnational capital markets and development policies: the OPEC countries, the Eurocurrency markets, and the LDCs from the 1960s to the 1970s
In the wake of a recent literature in international banking and financial history focused on the role of western commercial banks in placing the OPEC nations' assets with international borrowers, this article examines the role of leading Wall Street American banks in reflowing the investments of
“Jumped on the boat of a territorialist organization”: State and capital at the origins of oil imperialism
Modern imperialism springs from the interaction of the geopolitical and economic logics. The international oil industry offers an ideal case study of this connection. The links between nation states and multinational oil companies have been close and mutually advantageous.
Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 (Anand Toprani, 2019)
Anand Toprani, Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2019)