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America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Cultures (Paperback))

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UPC:
9781844673131
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2009-03-02
Release Date:
2009-03-02
Author:
Robert Vitalis
Language:
english
Edition:
New Updated Edition
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Now newly updated, Americas Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United Statess special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as the deal: oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and Aramco quickly became Americas largest single overseas private enterprise. From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps, to the consolidation of Americas Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today, this is a meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.