Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran : Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933-51 / Mattin Biglari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biglari, Mattin, author.

Series:

Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world.

Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Government ownership--Iran--History--20th century.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Iran.

Great Britain.

Iran--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Iran.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--20th century.

Iran--Foreign relations--1925-1941.

Iran--Foreign relations--1941-1979.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

How did British oil production in Iran shape both subaltern anticolonialism and colonial afterlives in the country?.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

1 Refining Knowledge: Building the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the Abadan Refinery

2 The City of Oil: Social Reproduction, Infrastructure and Anti-colonial Resistance in Abadan

3 The ‘Character’ of Engineering: Training, Subjectivity and Knowledge Production in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

4 The City of Science: Labour, Epistemic Struggle and Everyday Politics in the Abadan Refinery, 1946–1951

5 Expertise, Resource Nationalism and the Paradoxes of Oil Nationalisation in Iran

6 Nationalisation from Below: The 1951 General Strike

Epilogue: Nationalised Oil and the Paradoxes of Decolonisation

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781474489621

1474489621

9781474489638

147448963X

OCLC:

1490380131