[8] March 4 - Petroleum and geopolitics the first time around: Baku, Ploiești, Galicia
Presentation: Alperen
Discussion leader: Sunny
Assigned reading:
Alison Frank Johnson, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), 75-108.
Timothy Mitchell, "Machines of democracy," Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011), 12-42.
Suggested reading:
Maurice Pearton, Oil and the Romanian State (1971), 1-69.
J. Craig et al., eds., History of the European Oil and Gas Industry (2018).Brian Black, Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (2012).
Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991), 114-149.
F. H. Trevithick, A Sketchy Report on the Petroleum Industry at Baku (1886).
Hellmuth Wolff, Die Russische Naphtha-Industrie und der Deutsche Petroleummarkt (1902).
J. D. Henry, Baku: An Eventful History (1905).
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