Crude Britannia
How Oil Shaped a Nation
'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya ChakraborttyTaking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's oil-soaked past, present and future. Travelling the country, the authors discover how the financial power and political muscle of an industry built the culture of a nation from pop music to kitchen appliances, and how companies constructed an empire, extracting the wealth of the world from Iran to Nigeria and Alaska.Today, the tide seems to be going out - Britain's refineries have been quietly closed, the North Sea oilfields are declining and wi…
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Weitere Autoren: Macalister, Terry
- ISBN: 978-1-78680-639-0
- EAN: 9781786806390
- Produktnummer: 36536775
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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James Marriott is the co-author of The Oil Road (Verso, 2012) and The Next Gulf (Constable, 2005).
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