The Oil Conquest of the World
The Oil Conquest of the World

Author: Frederick Talbot

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-07-17

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9781535332033

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The Oil Conquest of the World is a fascinating book written in 1914 about oil prospects around the world, the usage of oil and refined products, and more.

Thy Will Be Done
Thy Will Be Done

Author: Gerard Colby

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 781

ISBN-13: 1504048393

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A “blistering exposé” of the USA’s secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region’s indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this “well-documented” (Los Angeles Times) book—the product of eighteen years of research—which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called “an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive.”

Oil, Power, and War
Oil, Power, and War

Author: Matthieu Auzanneau

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1603589783

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The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our lives—and illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the world’s easily and cheaply extractable reserves.

Petroleum
Petroleum

Author: Chester Garfield Gilbert

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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The authors analyze, discuss, and give an overview of petroleum resources and the petroleum industry in the United States in the early 20th Century.