1 option
Fuel on the fire : oil and politics in occupied Iraq / Greg Muttitt.
Van Pelt Library DS79.76 .M89 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muttitt, Greg.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Influence.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Iraq.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--Politics and government--2003-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 398 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Muttitt, author and policy director for antipoverty organization War on Want, fills what he describes as a gap in media accounts of the Iraq War, why it dragged on for years, and why the U.S. military left when it did. The gap, he says, is oil--a key element of Iraqi and Mideast politics that was largely overlooked in news media accounts of the war. The author used hundreds of unreleased government documents and interviews with American, British, and Iraqi officials as the basis for writing the story of what might be described as the 'other Iraq War.' Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Part 1 Oil and War (1998-2003)
- 1 An Immense Strategic Advantage 3
- 2 The Human at the Center 11
- 3 Burning Ambition 23
- 4 Wiping the Slate 40
- 5 Emergent Iraq 48
- 6 The Coalition Authority 58
- Part 2 Democracy and Violence (2003-2006)
- 7 Invasion of the Chalabis 73
- 8 The Advisers 85
- 9 Anti-Iraqi Forces 95
- 10 The Hands of Iraqis 105
- 11 Now It Becomes Legal 119
- 12 Iraq Divided 131
- Part 3 The Oil Law Struggle (2006-2007)
- 13 A Law to End All Laws 145
- 14 The Pragmatist 158
- 15 The Laurel Lodge Plan 166
- 16 The Surge 177
- 17 A Line in the Sand 185
- 18 The Ticking Clock 195
- 19 Imposing the Law 208
- Part 4 Oil Companies on the Front Line (2007-2011)
- 20 The New Iraq 227
- 21 Overwatch 242
- 22 Talking Business 255
- 23 Under the Hammer 272
- 24 A Dirty Business 282
- 25 Winter and Spring 295
- 26 Another Regime Changed 311.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head, London, 2011"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781595588050
- 1595588051
- OCLC:
- 744288294
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.