Timothy C. Winegard

The First World Oil War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This original and pioneering study analyzes the evolution of oil as a catalyst for both war and diplomacy, and connects the events of the First World War to contemporary petroleum geo-politics and international aggression.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781487500733
• ISBN-10: 1487500734
• Artikelnr.: 45060006

Autorenporträt

Timothy C. Winegard holds a PhD. from the University of Oxford. He served nine years as an officer in the Canadian and British Forces. Dr. Winegard teaches history and political science at Colorado Mesa University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Sir Hew Strachan
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Author’s Note: On Words
Introduction
Chapter 1: Oil and the Great Game
Chapter 2: Petroleum and Pipeline Politics
Chapter 3: The Last Crusade in the Middle East
Chapter 4: The Black Blood of Victory
Chapter 5: The Deployment of Dunsterforce
Chapter 6: Basra to Baghdad to Baku
Chapter 7: The Battle for Baku
Chapter 8: Peace and Petroleum
Chapter 9: Oil and the New Great Game
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix: Petroleum Situation in the British Empire, Admiral Sir Edmond
J.W. Slade, 29 July 1918. 
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index