| America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (New Updated Edition) (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Cultures) |  | Author: Robert Vitalis
Publisher: Verso
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Updated Edition
Pages: 354
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1844673138
EAN: 9781844673131
ASIN: 1844673138
Publication Date: March 2, 2009
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A groundbreaking account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order. Now newly updated, America’s Kingdom debunks 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, to the consolidation of America’s Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today, this is a meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.
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