Monthly Review Press, Date: 1975. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0853453357 1975. Monthly Review Press ISBN 0853453357 9780853453352 [GB]

New York. 1975. Monthly Review Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0853453357. 336 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Martin Stephen Moskof Associates, Inc. Front photo courtesy Mobil Oil Corporation. keywords: Middle East Oil Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Starting off with a brief and illuminating survey of the political economy of the Middle East region under Ottoman and then European domination, Stork describes the growth of the international oil industry, the struggles among imperialist powers, and the competing nationalisms and inner class struggles that have dominated developments in the Middle East since the turn of the century. The specific attempt to control oil reserves did not become an important feature of Western politics until the First World War. In fact, that war marked a major turning point in the destiny of the region: the Ottoman Empire was destroyed and its Arab territories distributed between Britain and France; Zionism became an important factor with the Balfour Declaration and the British mandate over Palestine; Arab nationalism emerged as a significant political force; the war experience demonstrated the growing strategic importance of oil for motorized ground transportation, newly emergent air forces, and more powerful navies; control of oil resources became the overriding focus of Western rivalry and the main impetus for Western powers to establish and maintain political and economic control over the region. Tied in with these changes ...

Monthly Review Press 1975 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN: 0853453357.

Monthly Review Press, Date: 1975-09-01. Hardcover. Good. 1975. Monthly Review Press ISBN 0853453357 9780853453352 [US]

Monthly Review Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1975. Hardcover. 0853453357 . Light foxing on jacket ; 8.0 X 5.8 X 1.4 inches; 336 pages . 1975. Monthly Review Press ISBN 0853453357 9780853453352 [US]

ISBN10: 0853453357, ISBN13: 9780853453352, [publisher: Monthly Review Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0853453357
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1975]