History of the Burmah Oil Company, Volume1,1886-1924
Details:
- Author(s) Corley, T A B
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1983
- Pages 331pp; illus
- Publisher Heinemann
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Diplomatic issues inc imperialism
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned account, its narrative following a broadly chronological sequence. In appendices provides financial and production data, 1880s-1924 [pp318-21]. Covers Anglo Persian Oil Co Ltd, Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd, Royal Dutch Shell, Admiralty. Chapters include: 'The forerunners'; 'David Cargill and Kirkman Finlay, 1874-66'; 'The formative years, 1886-1901'; 'Reconstruction, 1901-03'; 'The Admiralty and the Asiatic, 1903-05'; 'Persia, 1907-09'; 'A period of transition 1, 1905-08'; 'Working in the company, 1886-1924'; 'A period of transition 2, 1909-11'; 'Persia, 1909-14'; 'The Mesopotamian concessions'; 'Reform in the London office, 1912-14'; 'The First World War, 1914-18'; 'The merger that never was 1 - the imperial question, 1915-19'; 'Into the post war era, 1919-24 1 - The Watson touch'; 'Into the postwar era, 1919-24 2 - competition and collaboration; 'The merger that never was 2 - a fight to the finish'