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Oil and American Identity - A Culture of Dependency and US Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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Oil and American Identity - A Culture of Dependency and US Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a
serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a
political flashpoint even as domestic fracking eases the US'
reliance on imported energy. Oil and American Identity offers a
fresh perspective on the subject by reframing 'energy dependency'
as a cultural discourse with intimate connections to American views
on independence, freedom, consumption, abundance, progress and
American exceptionalism. Through a detailed reading of primary
literature, Sebastian Herbstreuth also shows how the dangers of
foreign oil are linked to American descriptions of foreign oil
producers as culturally different und thus 'undependable'.
Herbstreuth shows how even reliable imports from the Middle East
are portrayed as dangerous and undesirable because this region is
particularly 'foreign' from an American point of view, while oil
from friendly countries like Canada is cast as a benign form of
energy trade. Oil and American Identity rewrites the history of
U.S. foreign oil dependence as a cultural history of the United
States in the 20th century.
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