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...Gordon M. Jensen The Origins of Teapot Dome: Progressives, Parties, and Petroleum, 1909-1921 . By Bates J. Leonard . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1963 . Pp. 278 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 599 holders, who had been and were...

...Robert S. Smith The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines: A Study in Private Enterprises and Public Policy, 1862-1906 . By Johnson Arthur Menzies . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1956 . Pp. xiii , 307 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 5 16...

...Brian Holmes This text explores the consequences of the massive flow of Canadian heavy crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Chicago metropolitan area. The boom in North American oil extraction has literally strained petroleum infrastructure to its bursting point. How do urban populations...

... the regulatory contours of the recently opened western edge of the Gulf of Guinea’s petroleum frontier, a wholly offshore phenomenon. High- lighting Ghana’s experience as a newly minted oil producer, it asks, How...

..., claims based on ethnicity, the Kurdish restructuring of oil ownership marks the first step in dissolving the enduring legacies of colonial administration, authoritarian governments, and systematic militarization. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 sovereignty borders oil Iraq Petroleum Company...

... straits and accepted cash and gifts, totaling over $400,000, from the two oil men to whom he gave special leases of naval petroleum reserves. Harry Sinclair got the Teapot Dome in Wyoming, while E. L. Doheny took possession of Elk Hills in the San Joaquin Valley of California. To discuss all the details...

... and of considerable his­ torical value. JOHN SHELTON CURTISS The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines: A Study in Private Enterprises and Public Policy, 1862-1906. By Arthur Menzies Johnson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. xiii, 307. $4.50. Those familiar with the history of the Standard Oil trust...

...Imre Szeman Duke University Press 2007 Imre Szeman System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster Siri sipped at her coffee. “I would have thought that your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy...

... of the petroleum industry. The issues have been sharpened by a somewhat artificial dichotomy of private enter­ prise and public policy. In effect, even laissez faire is a public policy; and, since the aim of legislation was never to expropriate the pipelines, public policy is not the antithesis of private...

... occupation; rubber, the greatest single export. But Indonesia has petroleum, tin, bauxite, asphalt, copper, nickel, sulphur, and dia­ monds. Indonesia provided 37 per cent of the world s prewar rubber supply, 17 per cent of the tin, 3 per cent of the petroleum products, and 72 per cent of the kapok. Oil...

... measure on oil as a source Book Reviews 409 of power, the area that contains at least half of the world s petroleum reserves is of especially vital concern. Almost everyone knows, too, that Russia has long steadily pressed upon much of this region for geopolitical reasons, long before the importance...

... change their lives. For it was only a matter of time before the The South Atlantic Quarterly 110:2, Spring 2011 DOI 10.1215/00382876-1162498 © 2011 Carlos Salinas 364 The South Atlantic Quarterly • Spring 2011 Texas Petroleum...

... out­ standing exceptions, most of them uncorrected results of the first few months of code-making. For example, the ship­ building industry, the electrical manufacturing industry, the iron and steel industry, the petroleum industry, and the auto­ mobile industry have failed as yet to make any specific...

... of the obstacles in the path of their advancement. DUKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT F. DURDEN The Origins of Teapot Dome: Progressives, Parties, and Petroleum, 1909-1921. By J. Leonard Bates. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963. Pp. 278. $7.50. Professor Bates s book is close-up in its perspective, modest in gen­...

... on American petroleum policy in the Near East, to the view of several critics who have held that the United States had little to offer the underdeveloped nations at the end of the war except the old Open Door policy. In the case of Greece, it appears that it was Secretary of State Cordell Hull who was most...

... of History of the British Petroleum Company . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press . Ghosh Amitav . 2007 . Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times . Boston : Mariner . Kandiyoti Rafael . 2012 . Pipelines: Flowing Oil and Crude Politics . London : IB...

... to master her difficulties with that of the Soviet Union. The attempt to make an industrial country out of Yugo­ slavia can never end successfully; rich in minerals but lacking coke and petroleum, this country is condemned to depend on a larger market. The formation of a Balkan federation including Rumania...

... the party rallied the nation around a slogan 0 Petroleo e Nosso (The Petroleum Is Ours) to pass the National Petroleum Act of 1949, which effectively bottled up in the ground most of Brazil s vast petroleum reserves, safely out of reach of the American capitalist war-mongers. In any analysis...

... Petroleum Power in Bolivia”) . In Almaraz . 2011 , 143 – 62 . Gago Verónica . 2014 . La razón neoliberal. Economías barrocas y pragmática popular (Neoliberal Reason. Baroque Economies and Popular Pragmatics) . Buenos Aires : Tinta Limón . Gutiérrez Aguilar Raquel . 2014...

... East, including Greece, and this section is a gold mine of information. Some substance is lent, both in a letter of President Roosevelt and in a lengthy statement on American petroleum policy in the Near East, to the view of several critics who have held that the United States had little to offer...