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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Christopher Dietrich, āOil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonizationā (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Description: The 1973 oil crisis was an event of world-historic proportions, but the stories we tell about it often center the Global North. For instance, the first images that probably come to mind are of the long gas-station queues of Americans in their cars waiting to fill up at the height of the oil shortage. Christopher Dietrich, in his new book, Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2017)Ā approaches the oil crisis with a different perspective. Instead of focusing on the American consumerās struggles or the State Departmentās outlook, Dietrich foregrounds oil e...