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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
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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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- Copyright © David S. Painter 2012
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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.
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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).
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