History of the Burmah Oil Company, Volume 2, 1924-1966
Details:
- Author(s) Corley, T A B
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 416pp; 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
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned narrative account following a broadly chronological sequence. Appendices contain financial and production data, 1924-60s [pp396-9]. Much also about British Petroleum Co Ltd, Royal Dutch Shell, Indo Burma Petroleum Co Ltd, British Burmah Petroleum Co Ltd, Lobitos Oilfields Ltd. Chapters include: 'Watson at the summit, 1924-38'; 'Constitutional change and war, 1937-41'; 'Denial and evacuation, 1942'; 'Towards reconstruction, 1942-45'; 'Burma - liberation and independence, 1945-48'; 'Towards joint venture, 1949-54'; 'The road to diversification, 1954-59'; 'The denial case, 1948-65'; 'An end and a beginning, 1960-63'; 'Relations with British Petroleum and Shell, 1950-64'; 'India, Pakistan, Australia, 1945-66'; 'The sleeper wakes, 1964-66'