03669oam 22008174a 450 991026384430332120240424230630.00-262-34485-80-262-34484-X(CKB)4100000002743990(MiAaPQ)EBC5323537(OCoLC)1053494659(MdBmJHUP)muse70607(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78551(PPN)254801218(EXLCZ)99410000000274399020170609d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMachineries of OilAn Infrastructural History of BP in Iran /Katayoun ShafieeCambridgeThe MIT Press2018Cambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press,[2018]©[2018]1 online resource (347 pages) illustrations, photographsInfrastructures series0-262-03704-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.This book rethinks the politics of the Middle East through a study of the British-controlled oil industry in Iran between 1901 and 1954. Based on research in governmental and business archives in Iran, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it examines a series of disputes concerning petroleum exploration, property rights, the organization of labor, geological knowledge, accounting methods, oil distribution, and the calculation and control of profits. The goal is to understand how the construction of oil infrastructure reconfigured the local politics of the oil regions and how these arrangements in turn shaped the emergence of both the national state and the multinational oil corporation now known as BP. There has been no study of this kind, with the amount of rich, first-hand information Shafiee has gathered from Iran and elsewhere. Shafiee rethinks the role of oil in the early to mid-twentieth century as a non-human actor whose agency shapes and is shaped by the various techno-social transformations she discusses. She combines archival research with extensive field work at various sites in Iran--sources that are missing from the scholarship on both Iran and the oil industry.Infrastructures series.Petroleum industry and tradePolitical aspectsIranPetroleum industry and tradeIranHistoryElectronic books. IranBritish PetroleumOilInfrastructureTrans-national corporationDemocracyTechno-scienceScience and Technology StudiesMiddle EastSocio-technical systemOil ConcessionAnglo-Iranian Oil CompanyBritish AdmiraltySheikh Khaz'alStandardizationNatural resourcesPetroleum expertiseOil cartelNationalismcommunismracelaboroil nationalizationboycottoil consortiumenergy crisisPetroleum industry and tradePolitical aspectsPetroleum industry and tradeHistory.338.8/87223380955Shafiee Katayoun961799MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910263844303321Machineries of Oil2180512UNINA