Properties of petroleum -- Petroleum knowledge -- Calculating technologies in crisis -- What kind of oil worker does an oil industry require to survive? -- Assembling intractability: managing nationalism, combating nationalization -- Long-distance machineries of oil -- Conclusion : petroleum...

This study probes the middle class in Iran in relation to oil rents and political development. We begin by discussing how the Iranian middle class has evolved through the 1979 Revolution and in the post-revolutionary period. We then empirically examine the relationships among per capita oil-rent...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Oil Wealth and Politics in the Developing World -- Explaining Regime Durability in Oil-Rich States -- The Impact and Legacies of Oil and Late Development -- The Oil Booms and Beyond -- Oil, Opposition, and Late Development -- Conclusion --...