• Media type: Book; Bibliography
  • Title: America's kingdom : mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier
  • Contains: Contents -- Foreword -- Cast of characters -- Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- Part 1. The nearest faraway place -- Arabian frontiers -- American camp -- The wizards of Dhahran -- Part 2. Desire's empty quarter -- Ayyam al-Kadalak (days of the Cadillac) -- Eye of the desert -- El jefe rojo -- America's kingdom -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
  • Contributor: Vitalis, Robert [Author]
  • imprint: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007
  • Published in: Stanford studies in middle eastern and islamic societies and cultures
  • Extent: XXVII, 353 S.; Ill., Kt
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780804754460; 0804754462
  • RVK notation: ML 6300 : Sonstige Staaten
    QR 534 : Erdöl. Erdgas
  • Keywords: Saudi-Arabien > USA > Außenpolitik > Geschichte
    Arabian American Oil Company > Geschichte
    USA > Saudi-Arabien > Außenpolitik > Arabian American Oil Company
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Contents -- Foreword -- Cast of characters -- Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- Part 1. The nearest faraway place -- Arabian frontiers -- American camp -- The wizards of Dhahran -- Part 2. Desire's empty quarter -- Ayyam al-Kadalak (days of the Cadillac) -- Eye of the desert -- El jefe rojo -- America's kingdom -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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