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In the Name of Oil: Anglo-American Relations in the Middle East, 1950–1958, Ivan L. G. Pearson, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84519-388-1, 240 pp.

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In the Name of Oil: Anglo-American Relations in the Middle East, 1950–1958, Ivan L. G. Pearson, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84519-388-1, 240 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

David S. Painter
David S. Painter*
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Georgetown University
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Iranian Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Pre-islamic Iranian Literary Heritage , March 2012 , pp. 302 - 306
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References

2 Citino, Nathan J., From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa‘ūd, and the Making of U.S.–Saudi Relations (Bloomington, IN, 2002).Google Scholar

3 Bialer, Uri, Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–63 (New York, 1999).Google Scholar Pearson does not discuss Anglo-American policies toward the Arab–Israeli conflict.

4 See Galpern, Stephen G., Money, Oil and Empire in the Middle East: Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944–1971 (New York, 2009).Google Scholar

5 Yaqub, Salim, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (Chapel Hill, NC, 2004).Google Scholar Yaqub's work is never mentioned and is not listed in Pearson's bibliography.

6 For another example of British attitudes, see the long quotation from a 1951 report by Sir Roger Makins (pp. 172–3).

7 Gendzier, Irene, Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945–1958 (New York, 1997).Google Scholar

8 Galpern, Money, Oil and Empire in the Middle East.

9 Lukes, Stephen, Power: A Radical Analysis (London, 1974).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

10 See Painter, David S., “Oil and Natural Resources,” in Cambridge History of the Cold War, ed. Leffler, Melvyn P. and Westad, Odd Arne (Cambridge, 2010), 1: 486–507.CrossRefGoogle Scholar