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The Oil Wars Myth Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict / Emily Meierding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meierding, Emily, author.
- , Knowledge Unlatched, Author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics.
- War--Causes.
- War.
- Politics and war.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- World politics--20th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2020
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Emily Meierding is Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
- Summary:
- "The Oil Wars Myth challenges the popular belief that countries fight wars for oil resources by identifying overlooked obstacles to these conflicts and reexamining the presumed petroleum motives for many of the twentieth century's major international wars"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- From Value to Violence : Connecting Oil and War
- Explaining the Oil Wars Myth : Mad Max and El Dorado
- Why Classic Oil Wars Don't Pay
- Searching for Classic Oil Wars
- Red Herrings : The Chaco and Iran-Iraq Wars
- Oil Spats : The Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute
- Oil Campaigns : World War II
- Oil Gambit : Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501748950
- 1501748955
- 9781501748943
- 1501748947
- OCLC:
- 1114273884
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.7298/9qrc-ss10
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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