Keith Fisher: A Pipeline Runs Through It

Cover: 9780241558225 | A Pipeline Runs Through It | Keith Fisher | Buch | Englisch | 2022

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"A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the social, economic, political and geopolitical forces involved in our transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary story, from the pre-industrial history of petroleum through to large-scale production in the mid-19th century and the development of a dominant, fully-fledged oil industry by the early 20th century. Petroleum was used as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed light, heat and [...] was always a story of imperialist violence, political disenfranchisement, economic exploitation and environmental destruction. The near total eradication of the Native Americans of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio has barely been mentioned as a precondition for the emergence of the first industrialised oil region in the United States. Britain's invasion of Upper Burma in 1885 was perhaps the first war fought, at least in part, for access to oil; the growth of Royal Dutch-Shell involved genocidal fighting and the exploitation of oil in the Middle East arose seamlessly out of Britain's prior political and military interventions in the region. Finally, in an entirely new analysis, the book shows how British navy's increasingly desperate dependence on vulnerable foreign sources of oil may have been a catalytic ingredient in the outbreak of the First World War."--Publisher's website.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780241558225
ISBN-10:	0241558220
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	772437
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Fisher, Keith
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Allen Lane
Maße:	239 x 160 x 48 mm
Von/Mit:	Keith Fisher
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.08.2022
Gewicht:	1,28 kg

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