America's kingdom : mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier
America's kingdom : mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier
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美利坚王国：沙特石油边境的神话
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2009
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R. Vitalis
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《美利坚王国》揭穿了目前围绕美国与沙特阿拉伯特殊关系（也称为“协议”：石油换安全）的许多神话。罗伯特·维塔利斯打破了阿拉伯美国石油公司阿美公司在沙漠中创造奇迹的长期神话，展示了石油如何带领美国政府追随该公司进入王国，以及石油和阿美公司如何迅速成为美国最大的单一海外私营企业。从 20 世纪 30 年代在达兰石油营地建立的吉姆·克劳制度开始，以拉丁美洲建立的类似劳改营为蓝本，本书探讨了阿拉伯美国石油公司在沙漠中创造奇迹的长期神话。 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代的动乱，工人们挑战了阿美公司的种族等级制度，而一小部分进步的沙特人则挑战了国际石油市场的等级制度。这些团体的失败导致美利坚王国在法赫德家族的统治下得到巩固，该王室派系至今仍在统治。本书根据阿美公司员工和美国政府高级官员的第一手资料，讲述了沙特油田发生的事件的真实故事。
"America's Kingdom" debunks the many myths that now surround the United States' special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as 'the deal': oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the U.S. government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and ARAMCO quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise.From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps, modeled on similar labor camps set up in Latin America, the book examines the period of unrest in the 1950s and 1960s when workers challenged the racial hierarchy of ARAMCO while a small cadre of progressive Saudis challenged the hierarchy of the international oil market. The defeat of these groups led to the consolidation of America's Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today. Informed by first-hand accounts from ARAMCO employees and top U.S. government officials, this book offers the true story of the events on the Saudi oil fields.