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A Pipeline Runs Through It - The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War (Hardcover)
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A Pipeline Runs Through It - The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War (Hardcover)
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'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Wonderfully
detailed and colourful' Steven Poole, Daily Telegraph 'The book I
have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael Klare
Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by
Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a
weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth
in vast quantities transformed light, heat and power. A Pipeline
Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the
social, economic, political and geopolitical forces involved in our
transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary origin
story, from the pre-industrial history of petroleum through to
large-scale production in the mid-nineteenth century and the
development of a dominant, fully-fledged oil industry by the early
twentieth century. This was always a story of imperialist violence,
political disenfranchisement, economic exploitation and
environmental destruction. The near total eradication of the Native
Americans of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio has barely been
mentioned as a precondition for the emergence of the first
industrialised oil region in the United States. Britain's invasion
of Upper Burma in 1885 was perhaps the first war fought, at least
in part, for access to oil; the growth of Royal Dutch-Shell
involved the genocidal subjugation of people of the Dutch East
Indies and the exploitation of oil in the Middle East arose
seamlessly out of Britain's prior political and military
interventions in the region. Finally, in an entirely new analysis,
the book shows how the British navy's increasingly desperate
dependence on vulnerable foreign sources of oil may have been a
catalytic ingredient in the outbreak of the First World War. The
rise of oil has shaped the modern world, and this is the book to
understand it.
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