Oil for Britain : the United Kingdom and the remaking of the international oil industry, 1957-1988 /

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Author / Creator:	Kuiken, Jonathan R., author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. ©2023
Description:	1 online resource ( xii, 236 pages.)
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in modern British history Routledge studies in modern British history.
Subject:	British National Oil Corporation -- History. Shell Oil Company -- History. British Petroleum Company -- History. British National Oil Corporation. British Petroleum Company. Shell Oil Company. Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History. Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy. Great Britain.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13336983

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ISBN:	9781003300090 100330009X 9781000905274 1000905276 9781000905328 1000905322 9781032291147 9781032291154
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Jonathan R. Kuiken is an associate professor of History at Wilkes University. He is the author of articles such as "Ignoring, countering and undercutting OPEC: Britain, BP, Shell and the shifting global energy order, 1960-1986" (2020) and 'La persistence d'empire? Le rôle des compagnies pétrolir̈es britanniques en Afrique postcoloniale' (2017). He received his doctorate from Boston College in 2013. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2023).
Other form:	Print version: Kuiken, Jonathan R. Oil for Britain Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032291147
Standard no.:	10.4324/9781003300090

Table of Contents:

Introduction
A more active phase: Upholding the status quo in a changing world of oil, 1957-1962
Cartels and Chaos: Declining State and Company Power, 1962-1968
Safety in diversity: the search for new sources of oil, 1957-1969
Profits Abroad, Taxes at Home: Oil and Britain's Finances, 1957-1968
Participating in Defeat: Shifts in the Balance of Power, 1968-1972
Facing Down the "Oil Weapon": Doomed efforts at consumer cooperation, 1971-1973
Partners and Rivals: Battles Abroad, Battles at Home, 1968-1973
Britain First?: Weathering the "oil shock" and its aftermath, 1973-1974
Oil in the National Interest: The Troubled Birth of BNOC, 1973-1976
Preferring to dismember it: Thatcher, the demise of BNOC, and the embrace of a global oil industry, 1978-1988
Conclusion.

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