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Oil in the Middle East : its discovery and development

Traces the rise of petroleum development in the Middle East, the speed and scale of which led it to become, in two decades, a vital factor in world economies. It also discusses the international significance of the existence of this form of wealth concentrated in an area with a known history of political sensitiveness and strategic value

Print Book, English, 1961
2d ed
Oxford University Press, New York, 1961