Oil Revolution : Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization (Paperback)

Introduction. The cash-value of decolonization; 1. One periphery: the creation of sovereign rights, 1949?55; 2. Past concessions: the Arab League, sovereign rights, and OPEC, 1955?60; 3. Histories of petroleum colonization: oil elites and sovereign rights, 1960?7; 4. Rights and failure: the 1967 Arab oil embargo; 5. Nationalist heroes: imperial withdrawal, the Cold War, and oil control, 1967?70; 6. A turning point of our history: the insurrectionists and oil, 1970?1; 7. A fact of life: the consolidation of sovereign rights, 1971?3; 8. The OPEC syndrome: the Third World's energy crisis, 1973?5; Conclusion. Dead by its own law? Decolonization, sovereignty, and culture.