Adam Hanieh: Crude Capitalism | Buch

Cover: 9781839763427 | Crude Capitalism | Adam Hanieh | Buch | Englisch | 2024 | Verso Books

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This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an American-centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti-colonial rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and militarism; and the emergence of new forms of synthetic consumption. Much more than an energy source or transport fuel, oil has a foundational place in all aspects of contemporary life - no challenge to the fossil fuel industry can be effective without taking this fact seriously.

Crude Capitalism maps the varied geographies of oil, including the rise of OPEC, the importance of revolutionary and Post-Soviet Russia, the crucial role of African upstream reserves, and the new petrochemical circuits that link the Middle East, China, and East Asia. The book provides an original and fine-grained empirical analysis of corporate ownership and control, including refining and petrochemicals.

By exposing these structures of power and placing oil in capitalism, the book makes an essential contribution to debates around oil-dependency and the struggle for climate justice.

Über den Autor

Adam Hanieh

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. Approaching Oil
2. Petro-Power: The Rise of the US Oil Industry
3. The Middle East and the Seven Sisters
4. A Russian Interlude: From Baku to the Bolsheviks
5. Post-war Transitions I: Europe’s Shift to Oil
6. Post-war Transitions II: Anti-colonial Revolt and OPEC
7. Petrochemicals and the Emergence of a Synthetic World
8. A Moment of Rupture: Myths and Consequences of the First Oil Shock
9. US Power, Oil, and Global Finance
10. Oil and Capital in Post-Soviet Russia
11. A Sorority Reborn: The Western Supermajors, 1990–2005
12. NOCs and the New East-East Hydrocarbon Axis
13. Confronting the Climate Emergency

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781839763427
ISBN-10:	1839763426
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hanieh, Adam
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	237 x 159 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Adam Hanieh
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.09.2024
Gewicht:	0,496 kg