A groundbreaking account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order
Robert Vitalis is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and the End of Empire in Egypt and co-editor of Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society, and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
A devastating critique of the US-Saudi relationship.
*Guardian*
A scholarly and readable book on the interaction between Saudi
society and Aramco, the US oil giant that had its beginnings when
the Saudi government granted its first concessions to Standard Oil
of California in 1933. Combining history with political geography,
Vitalis sheds a bright light on the origins and less savory aspects
of the Saudi-US relationship.
*London Review of Books*
Groundbreaking is a word too often used in assessing historical
scholarship. Yet its application to Robert Vitalis's book is
nothing less than a necessity. The result of painstaking research
in not only heretofore unused but previously unknown records, the
book makes a major contribution to a variety of fields:
international history, US-Saudi relations, business history,
American race history, and more ... Those seeking to explain the
present US place in the world should consider it essential
reading.
*American Historical Review*
A devastating critique of the US-Saudi relationship. -- Tariq Ali *
Guardian *
A scholarly and readable book on the interaction between Saudi
society and Aramco, the US oil giant that had its beginnings when
the Saudi government granted its first concessions to Standard Oil
of California in 1933. Combining history with political geography,
Vitalis sheds a bright light on the origins and less savory aspects
of the Saudi-US relationship. * London Review of Books *
Groundbreaking is a word too often used in assessing historical
scholarship. Yet its application to Robert Vitalis's book is
nothing less than a necessity. The result of painstaking research
in not only heretofore unused but previously unknown records, the
book makes a major contribution to a variety of fields:
international history, US-Saudi relations, business history,
American race history, and more ... Those seeking to explain the
present US place in the world should consider it essential reading.
* American Historical Review *
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