The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts The Ottoman Empire & Further East: Then to Now Oil and its Relationship with the War
RCC8130
The First World Oil War
ISBN
9781487500733
Purchase Price
£29.99 (new)
Date Purchased
April 4, 2023
Publisher
University of Toronto Press (2016, Toronto)
Notes
This book has a Foreword by Professor Sir Hew Strachan. The author argues in this book that, beginning with the First World War, oil became the pre-eminent commodity to safeguard national security and provide domestic prosperity. For the first time in history, territory was specifically conquered to seize oil fields and resources, vital cogs in the continuation of the industrialized warfare of the Twentieth Century. This original and pioneering study analyses the evolution of oil as a catalyst for both war and diplomacy, and connects the events of the First World War to contemporary petroleum geopolitics and international aggression. This is what makes this book important for the Collection.
9781487500733
Purchase Price
£29.99 (new)
Date Purchased
April 4, 2023
Publisher
University of Toronto Press (2016, Toronto)
Notes
This book has a Foreword by Professor Sir Hew Strachan. The author argues in this book that, beginning with the First World War, oil became the pre-eminent commodity to safeguard national security and provide domestic prosperity. For the first time in history, territory was specifically conquered to seize oil fields and resources, vital cogs in the continuation of the industrialized warfare of the Twentieth Century. This original and pioneering study analyses the evolution of oil as a catalyst for both war and diplomacy, and connects the events of the First World War to contemporary petroleum geopolitics and international aggression. This is what makes this book important for the Collection.
