Oil, God, and Gold
Title | Oil, God, and Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Cave Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780395592205 |
Played out against a background of war and the turmoil of an ancient culture thrust abruptly into the twentieth century, the struggle to control the flow of Saudi oil was won by the United States, which emerged as the dominant Western power in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.
God and Gold
Title | God and Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Russell Mead |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2008-10-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0375713735 |
A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed. But the current conflicts in the Middle East threaten to change that record unless we foster a deeper understanding of the conflicts between the liberal world system and its foes.
Fighting for G.O.D. (gold, Oil and Drugs)
Title | Fighting for G.O.D. (gold, Oil and Drugs) PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Begin |
Publisher | Trine Day |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9780977795338 |
"Telling the story that our mainstream media rarely come near, this illustrated volume gives us an understanding of 9/11 as a cynical ploy by global elites to maintain their control. With a review of history from medieval bankers to the corporate "new world order" of modern neocons, ..."--P. 4 of cover.
America's Kingdom
Title | America's Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Vitalis |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804754460 |
Examination of U.S.-Saudi relations, the development of the oil frontier, and the enduring legacy of racial segregation at the Aramco camps.
God's Gold
Title | God's Gold PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Flynn |
Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 1932 |
Genre | Capitalists and financiers |
ISBN | 1610164113 |
Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power
Title | Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen R. Wald |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1681777185 |
A history of the most profitable company in the world, Saudi Aramco, and the story behind the family that ruthlessly maneuvered to control this multi-trillion dollar enterprise. The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term strength and profit. They use Islamic law, traditional ideology, and harsh justice to maintain stability and their own power, but underneath the thobes and abayas and behind the religious fanaticism and illiberalism lies a most sophisticated and ruthless business enterprise. Today, that corporation is poised to pull off the biggest IPO in history. Over more than a century, fed by ambition and oil wealth, al Saud, as the royal family is known, has come from next to nothing to rule as absolute monarchs, a contrast with the world around them and modernity itself. The story starts with Saudi Arabia's founder, Abdul Aziz, a lowly refugee embarking on a daring gambit to reconquer his family's ancestral home?the mud-walled city of Riyadh. It takes readers almost to present day, when the multinational family business has made al Saud the wealthiest family in the world and on the cusp of a new transformation. Now al Saud and its family business, Aramco, are embarking on their most ambitious move: taking the company public and preparing the country for the next generation.
Oil, Power, and War
Title | Oil, Power, and War PDF eBook |
Author | Matthieu Auzanneau |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2020-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1603589783 |
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our lives—and illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the world’s easily and cheaply extractable reserves.