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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Machineries of oil
    sub title: an infrastructural history of BP in Iran
  name:
    name part: Shafiee, Katayoun
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This 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.
  note: Katayoun Shafiee.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: British Petroleum Company.
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum industry and trade
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum industry and trade
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
  subject:
    topic: ECONOMICS/Political Economy
  classification: HD9576.I62 S53 2018eb
  classification: 338.8/87223380955
  identifier: 9780262344845
  identifier: 026234484X
  identifier: 9780262037044
  identifier: 0262037041
  identifier: 9780262344838
  identifier: 0262344831
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11023.001.0001
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 180316
    record change date: 20221121161806.9
    record identifier: in00004600606
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng