The Barons A visitor from Sweden Revolution Soviet Days The Middleman Détente The perfet Oil Field Crossfire The First Deal Return to Baku The Contract of the Century The Near Abroad Early Oil A Battle of Wills A Table of Two Negotiators An Accidental Pipeline An Army for Oil Boom and Bust...

Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century...

Intro -- Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Oil and the Corporate State -- 1. Globalism, Oil, and the Power Elites -- 2. Background to Battle: The Thirty Years' War -- 3. The Oil Companies: A Legacy of Global Power -- 4. The...