Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198834601,0198834608,9780192571595, 0192571591

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• ISBN-10: 0192571591
• ISBN-13:9780192571595
• Author: Anand Toprani

The history of oil is a chapter in the story of Europe’s geopolitical decline in the twentieth century. During the era of the two world wars, a lack of oil constrained Britain and Germany from exerting their considerable economic and military power independently. Both nations’ efforts to restore the independence they had enjoyed during the Age of Coal backfired by inducing strategic over-extension, which served only to hasten their demise as great powers. Having fought World War I with oil imported from the United States, Britain was determined to avoid relying upon another great power for its energy needs ever again. Even before the Great War had ended, Whitehall implemented a strategy of developing alternative sources of oil under British control. Britain’s key supplier would be the Middle East – already a region of vital importance to the British Empire – whose oil potential was still unproven. As it turned out, there was plenty of oil in the Middle East, but Italian hostility after 1935 threatened transit through the Mediterranean

Table contents:

Part I: Britain

1. The Allure of Independence: 1914–1921

2. The Years of Complacency: 1921–1932

3. The Reality of Dependence: 1932–1939

4. The Price of Failure: 1939–1942

Part II: Germany

5. Making Do with Less: 1914–1935

6. Fueling the War to Come: 1935–1939

7. From Crisis to Opportunity: 1939–1941

8. Double or Nothing: 1941–1942

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