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What is Oil and the Middle East about?

56 pages : 24 cm The Middle East supplies much of the world's oil. Discusses key questions such as: How did oil affect the development of the Middle East's countries? How have oil incomes benefited the region's people? Has oil been the cause of conflict in the Middle East? Suggested level: secondary Includes bibliographical references and index The burning oil wells of Kuwait -- Why is Middle East oil so important? -- The Middle East before oil -- The first Middle East oil discoveries -- The spread of the oil industry -- Oil in the Gulf States -- Arabian explorations -- Oil in World War II -- The USA and Saudi Arabia -- Post-war boom and disruption -- OPEC -- The oil shock of 1973 -- Oil and political change -- Oil and society -- Saddam Hussein and Iraq -- Iraq and oil today -- Islamic Iran -- Iran in the 21st century -- The Gulf and oil today -- Saudi Arabia in the 21st century -- The Middle East and the thirst for oil -- When the oil runs out

Author

John King

Publisher

Raintree Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844432073

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Literary Fiction