America's kingdom : mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier / Robert Vitalis.
نوع المادة :
نصالسلاسل:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and culturesالناشر:London ; New York : Verso, 2009وصف:xxiii, 353 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0804754462
- 1844673138 (pbk)
- 9781844673131 (pbk)
- HD9576.S334 V58 2009
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HD9576.S334 V58 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000107309 | ||
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HD9576.S334 V58 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000107305 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-338) and index.
1. Captive narratives : a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- 2. Arabian frontiers -- 3. American camp -- 4. The wizards of Dhahran -- 5. Ayyam al-Kadalak (days of the Cadillac) -- 6. Eye of the desert -- 7. El Jafe Rojo -- 8. America's kingdom.
"America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States' "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia, or what is less reverently known as "the deal": oil for security. Taking aim at the long-held belief that the Arabian American Oil Company, ARAMCO, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows that nothing could be further from the truth. What is true is that oil led the U.S. government to follow the company to the kingdom. Eisenhower agreed to train Ibn Sa'ud's army, Kennedy sent jets to defend the kingdom, and Lyndon Johnson sold it missiles. Oil and ARAMCO quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.
