Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf

(Part of the Center on Global Energy Policy Series Series)

by Jim Krane

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After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain--went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some of the highest consumption rates on earth. Today, as summertime temperatures set...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231179308

ISBN13:9780231179300

Release Date:January 2019

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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