America's Kingdom Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier

Name: America's Kingdom Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
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ISBN: 9781844673131

ISBN-10: 1844673138

ISBN-13: 9781844673131

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert Vitalis

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A groundbreaking, meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order, now newly updated. America's Kingdomdebunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal": oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and Aramco quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise. From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps, modeled on similar labor camps set up…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 3/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword to the Paperback Edition


Foreword


Cast of Characters



Captive Narratives: A Brief and Unexceptional Introduction to the History of Firms and States



The Nearest Faraway Place



Arabian Frontiers



American Camp



The Wizards of Dhahran



Desire's Empty Quarter



Ayyam al-Kadalak (Days of the Cadillac)



Eye of the Desert



El Jefe Rojo



America's Kingdom


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Map and photographs follow page