Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted April 7, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 7, 2017 This is an excellent book about the history of the worldwide oil industry from 1850 up until 1990. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 4 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said: This is an excellent book about the history of the worldwide oil industry from 1850 up until 1990. There is a mini series as well on Youtube made by PBS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 8 minutes ago, Anler said: Well we and the British are kinda one now. The British have actually been trying to get that oil since before WW1. The Germans built a railroad to haul oil from Iraq (part of the ottoman empire at the time)to Berlin. It was called the Berlin - baghdad railroad. The British cut a deal with the Persians and tried to persuade the ottomans to sell their oil to them instead of the Germans. The ottomans said go fuck yourself and the British invaded. The British, Germans, French etc,etc went about the conquest of the middle east oil fields as an addition to their perspective empires. The US was late to the middle east as in the early days of oil had a large domestic supply. The US really got it's foot in the door after WWII in Saudi Arabia but in a much different way than the Europeans, more as a partnership than a conquest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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