Format:
1 Online-Ressource (323 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780192571588
Content:
Oil and the Great Powers examines how oil shaped British and German grand strategy in the era of the two world wars, arguing that Britain and Germany's efforts to become energy-independent led them to pursue policies that compromised security by inducing strategic over-extension, thereby hastening their decline as great powers.
Content:
Cover -- Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914-1945 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Introduction: Oil and Strategy -- WHY OIL? -- OUTLINE -- TERMINOLOGY AND MEASUREMENTS -- PART I: BRITAIN -- 1: The Allure of Independence 1914-1921 -- PREWAR DEVELOPMENTS, 1900-1914 -- THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918 -- SECURING SHELL AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 1918-1920 -- OIL AND ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1918-1921 -- 2: The Years of Complacency 1921-1932 -- IMPERIAL AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1921-1924 -- SHELL GAMES, 1922-1924 -- MOVING BRITAIN'S OIL, 1925-1931 -- BRITAIN'S POSITION BEFORE 1933 -- 3: The Reality of Dependence 1932-1939 -- (ANOTHER) CRISIS IN PERSIA, 1932-1933 -- WAR PLANNING, 1935-1937 -- NATIONALISM IN MEXICO, 1938 -- PREPARING FOR A "DUAL CONTINGENCY," 1938-1939 -- 4: The Price of Failure 1939-1942 -- A HOUSE BUILT ON SAND, 1939-1941 -- FAILURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1939-1942 -- PART II: GERMANY -- 5: Making Do with Less 1914-1935 -- OIL AND THE OUTCOME OF WORLD WAR I -- PICKING UP THE PIECES, 1919-1932 -- CREATING A GLOBAL HYDROCARBON CARTEL -- A NEW DIRECTION, 1933-1935 -- 6: Fueling the War to Come 1935-1939 -- THE BATTLE TO CONTROL POLICY, 1935-1937 -- ESCALATION AND CRISIS, 1937-1939 -- BUILDING BRIDGES TO BUCHAREST, 1938-1939 -- GERMANY'S POSITION ON THE EVE OF WAR, 1939 -- 7: From Crisis to Opportunity 1939-1941 -- THE FRUITS OF VICTORY, 1939-1941 -- POSTWAR STRATEGY, 1940-1941 -- ROMANIA CHOOSES SIDES, 1939-1941 -- THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, 1940-1941 -- 8: Double or Nothing: 1941-1942 -- PRELUDE AND PLANNING, 1918-1941 -- DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE EAST, 1941-1942 -- Conclusion: Oil and the End of European Primacy, 1914-1945 -- DECLINE OR CATASTROPHE -- OIL AND WORLD POWER SINCE WORLD WAR I I -- Select Bibliography -- ARCHIVES -- Federal Republic of Germany -- United Kingdom.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198834601
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Toprani, Anand Oil and the great powers Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780198834601
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Deutschland
;
Erdölindustrie
;
Erdölversorgung
;
Geschichte 1914-1945
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