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050	0	4	_aHD9576.I62 _bS53 2018
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100	1		_aShafiee, Katayoun, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMachineries of Oil _bAn Infrastructural History of BP in Iran / _cKatayoun Shafiee.
264		1	_bThe MIT Press,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 347 pages)
490	0		_aInfrastructures series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aThis book rethinks the politics of the Middle East through a study of the British-controlled oil industry in Iran between 1901 and 1954. Based on research in governmental and business archives in Iran, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it examines a series of disputes concerning petroleum exploration, property rights, the organization of labor, geological knowledge, accounting methods, oil distribution, and the calculation and control of profits. The goal is to understand how the construction of oil infrastructure reconfigured the local politics of the oil regions and how these arrangements in turn shaped the emergence of both the national state and the multinational oil corporation now known as BP. There has been no study of this kind, with the amount of rich, first-hand information Shafiee has gathered from Iran and elsewhere. Shafiee rethinks the role of oil in the early to mid-twentieth century as a non-human actor whose agency shapes and is shaped by the various techno-social transformations she discusses. She combines archival research with extensive field work at various sites in Iran--sources that are missing from the scholarship on both Iran and the oil industry.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
610	2	0	_aBritish Petroleum Company.
650		0	_aPetroleum industry and trade _xPolitical aspects _zIran.
650		0	_aPetroleum industry and trade _zIran _xHistory.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aInfrastructures series.
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/60838/
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