Oil and American identity : a culture of dependency and US foreign policy / Sebastian Herbstreuth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herbstreuth, Sebastian, author.

Series:

Politics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Politics & international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy policy--United States.

Energy policy.

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--United States.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--United States--Public opinion.

American Government and Politics.

Middle East Politics.

Politics & International Relations.

Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.

Middle East.

United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.

United States.

Local Subjects:

American Government and Politics.

Middle East Politics.

Politics & International Relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

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PDF

Summary:

"American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoint even as domestic fracking eases the US' reliance on imported energy. Oil and American Identity offers a fresh perspective on the subject by reframing 'energy dependency' as a cultural discourse with intimate connections to American views on independence, freedom, consumption, abundance, progress and American exceptionalism. Through a detailed reading of primary literature, Sebastian Herbstreuth also shows how the dangers of foreign oil are linked to American descriptions of foreign oil producers as culturally different und thus 'undependable'. Herbstreuth shows how even reliable imports from the Middle East are portrayed as dangerous and undesirable because this region is particularly 'foreign' from an American point of view, while oil from friendly countries like Canada is cast as a benign form of energy trade. Oil and American Identity rewrites the history of U.S. foreign oil dependence as a cultural history of the United States in the 20th century."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Rethinking the Cultural Left in the Reagan Era Section I : Intellectual Culture

1. Walter LaFeber, Gabriel Kolko and the Activist History of American Empire

2. Verso Books and Transnational Solidarity Section II : Press Culture

3. The Nation and Nicaragua

4. The Guardian, the Solidarity Movement and El Salvador Section III

5. Anti-Interventionist Cinema at Hollywood's Margins

6. International Feminism, Documentary Filmmaking and Central American Revolutionary Struggle

Conclusion ; Rememebering Central America Activism

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786739919

1786739917

9780857738387

0857738380

9781350987371

1350987379

OCLC:

979242383