Untapped The Scramble for Africa's Oil

Name: Untapped The Scramble for Africa's Oil
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ISBN: 9780151011384

ISBN-10: 0151011389

ISBN-13: 9780151011384

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Ghazvinian

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Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn't seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has become the scene of a competition between major powers that recalls the nineteenth-century scramble for colonization there. Already the United States imports more of its oil from Africa than from Saudi Arabia, and China, too, looks to the continent for its energy security. What does this giddy new oil boom mean--for America, for the world, for Africans themselves? To find out, John Ghazvinian traveled through twelve African…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/9/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

JOHN GHAZVINIAN has a doctorate in history from Oxford. He has written for Newsweek, the Nation, Time Out New York, and other publications. Born in Iran and raised in London and Los Angeles, he currently lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania.



Preface


Introduction



The Onshore Effect



The Offshore Illusion



"A Country in Africa"



Instant Emirates



Paradise Found?



The Place Where People Wait



The Chinese are Coming!...But Who Isn't?


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources and Suggested Further Reading


Index