Oil and Empire. British policy and Mesopotamian oil, 1900-1920
Details:
- Author(s) Kent, Marian
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1976
- Pages 273pp; illus
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Diplomatic issues inc imperialism
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An early account which examines British government efforts to obtain and safeguard oil supplies for domestic and military use, the evolution of a national oil policy and its significance in the development of foreign policy'. Comprises three parts: 1] Background; 2] 'Examination of British government's involvement in Mesopotamian oil concession negotiations, 1912-14; 3] 'Exigencies of war and the provision for peace. Oil policy and territorial desiderata'. Contains much, inter alia, on National Bank of Turkey and Turkish Petroleum Co