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List of illustrations ix
List of tables x
Acknowledgements xi
List of abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
1 Anglo-American conflict over oil and the sterling area 23
1.1 The rise of the sterling area and the creation of the Bretton Woods international monetary system, 1932-1944 27
1.2 Anglo-American petroleum talks, 1944-1945 35
1.3 Balance-of-payments crises and strategic turning point, 1947-1949 48
1.4 Substitution of sterling oil for dollar oil, 1949-1950 59
2 Sterling and Britain's confrontation with nationalism in Iran 80
2.1 The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Britain, and Iran, 1900-1946 83
2.2 From renegotiation to nationalization, 1947-1951 87
2.3 The balance-of-payments crisis of 1951 and the importance of British control over Iranian oil 105
2.4 US anti-imperialism, anti-communism, and Anglo-American conflict, 1950-1953 114
2.5 The Consortium Agreement, sterling, and British policy, 1953-1954 130
3 The Suez crisis: a sterling rescue operation gone wrong 142
3.1 De facto sterling convertibility, declining confidence in the pound, and the continuing importance of oil to the British balance of-payments, 1954-1956 146
3.2 Anglo-American defense planning, the Aswan High Dam project, and the nationalization of the Suez Canal, 1954-1956 150
3.3 Speculation against sterling and the march toward war 166
3.4 Operation "Musketeer," Anglo-American discord, and sterling's collapse 178
3.5 Consequences 193
4 Kuwait's surplus oil revenue: the benefit and threat to sterling 198
4.1 A new oil agreement, expanding production, and Whitehall's anxiety over rapidly rising sterling revenues in Kuwait 204
4.2 Sterling convertibility, decolonization,development, and the growing importance of Kuwait's sterling balances to the sterling area 218
4.3 Arab nationalism, the threat to Britain's interests in Kuwait, and Anglo-American intervention in the Middle East 229
4.4 Britain's continuing balance-of-payments struggle, Whitehall's reconsideration of its military commitments in the Persian Gulf, and US efforts to maintain sterling and British forces east of Suez 255
Conclusion: the devaluation of 1967 and the end of empire 268
Afterword 287
Appendices 295
Select bibliography 299
Index 313
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Eric Wild
reviewed Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East: Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944-1971 on December 27, 2009
Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East: Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944-1971
A biased, selective, and misleading history of the middle east conflict. He paints the Arab people as almost entirely victims of western domination and leaves them with hardly any responsibility for their own failings. One of the longest sections in the book dealt with the Israeli-Arab conflict omits the following enormously important facts:
1. While Rogan slams Israel for the "eviction" of Palestinians in 1948 (which in reality was Arab governments telling all Palestinians to leave because of their impending offensive against Israel) - he says nothing of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were evicted from Arab lands at the same time.
2. He portrays the Jewish purchase of land as something that was imposed on the Arab people against their will. In reality, the Arabs were glad to sell the land in modern day Israel to the Jews - at extremely exorbitant prices. This has been documented in history.
3. Painting Arafat as a freedom fighter for the Palestinian people, he omits his over support for violence against Israeli civilians, his support for suicide bombers, and his infamous public murder of a 65 year old unarmed Jewish man in a wheelchair in a naval standoff.
4. Speaking of the Oslo Accords - he makes no mention of the concessions the Palestinians promised to make, only noting that they were substantial. If he HAD mentioned the concessions the Palestinians were to make (such as stemming the spread of terror organizations and halting the indoctrination of children in Gaza with violent religious fundamentalism), he would have been forced to note that the Palestinians failed miserably in this regard.
5. Dismissing the United States' and Israel's claim that Arafat was responsible for the failure of the negotiations at Camp David - without any evidence - he completely ignores the fact that Ehud Barak offered him 98% of the land he was requesting and he turned it down. Rogan doesn't offer any evidence for his claims, because there is none.
6. Disparaging the Israeli war against Hizbullah in 2006 as barbaric for launching attacks on civilian infrastructure, Rogan completely omits the fact that Hizbullah deliberately positioned themselves in highly populated areas to inflict the most casualties on the Lebanese population to gain international support (as Hamas did in Gaza in 2009). He didn't even bother to address it - it was omitted completely.
These are 6 of the most stunning omissions from his novel but there are many many more. If you want a one sided account of Arab history then purchase this book - but make sure you also consult a history of the Arabs that isn't so biased and remarkably selective in its portrayal of history in the Middle East.
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