LEADER 03669oam 22008174a 450 001 9910263844303321 005 20240424230630.0 010 $a0-262-34485-8 010 $a0-262-34484-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000002743990 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5323537 035 $a(OCoLC)1053494659 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse70607 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78551 035 $a(PPN)254801218 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002743990 100 $a20170609d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMachineries of Oil$eAn Infrastructural History of BP in Iran /$fKatayoun Shafiee 210 $aCambridge$cThe MIT Press$d2018 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (347 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 0 $aInfrastructures series 311 $a0-262-03704-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index. 330 $aThis book rethinks the politics of the Middle East through a study of the British-controlled oil industry in Iran between 1901 and 1954. Based on research in governmental and business archives in Iran, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it examines a series of disputes concerning petroleum exploration, property rights, the organization of labor, geological knowledge, accounting methods, oil distribution, and the calculation and control of profits. The goal is to understand how the construction of oil infrastructure reconfigured the local politics of the oil regions and how these arrangements in turn shaped the emergence of both the national state and the multinational oil corporation now known as BP. There has been no study of this kind, with the amount of rich, first-hand information Shafiee has gathered from Iran and elsewhere. Shafiee rethinks the role of oil in the early to mid-twentieth century as a non-human actor whose agency shapes and is shaped by the various techno-social transformations she discusses. She combines archival research with extensive field work at various sites in Iran--sources that are missing from the scholarship on both Iran and the oil industry. 410 0$aInfrastructures series. 606 $aPetroleum industry and trade$xPolitical aspects$zIran 606 $aPetroleum industry and trade$zIran$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aIran 610 $aBritish Petroleum 610 $aOil 610 $aInfrastructure 610 $aTrans-national corporation 610 $aDemocracy 610 $aTechno-science 610 $aScience and Technology Studies 610 $aMiddle East 610 $aSocio-technical system 610 $aOil Concession 610 $aAnglo-Iranian Oil Company 610 $aBritish Admiralty 610 $aSheikh Khaz'al 610 $aStandardization 610 $aNatural resources 610 $aPetroleum expertise 610 $aOil cartel 610 $aNationalism 610 $acommunism 610 $arace 610 $alabor 610 $aoil nationalization 610 $aboycott 610 $aoil consortium 610 $aenergy crisis 615 0$aPetroleum industry and trade$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPetroleum industry and trade$xHistory. 676 $a338.8/87223380955 700 $aShafiee$b Katayoun$0961799 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910263844303321 996 $aMachineries of Oil$92180512 997 $aUNINA