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The First Oil Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

Lawrence P. Frank
Lawrence P. Frank
Affiliation:
St. Lawrence University(Canton, New York)
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Extract

The oil crises of the 1970s ended a distinct historical period in the control of oil. While the demise of the first oil regime is clear to all, the nature of that regime itself is less well understood. What, in particular, was the distribution of power among the actors in the regime? What were the structures and goals of this system during the long period (approximately the first seventy years of the twentieth century) during which petroleum became vital to industrial society and emerged as the most important commodity in world commerce?

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Review Article
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World Politics , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , July 1985 , pp. 586 - 598
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1985

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