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Oil, Power, and War - A Dark History (Paperback)
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Oil, Power, and War - A Dark History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R548
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Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs
"Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous
addiction."-Nature The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune,
betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has
been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and
ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over.
For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential
ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has
brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the
fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily
dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases.
Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a "people's history,"
award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil
became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous
consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical
and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we
thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the
1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or
even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events
that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the
Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of
neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal
clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in
all of our lives-and illustrates how much heavier that hand could
get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of
the world's easily and cheaply extractable reserves.
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