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HIST4442/6442

The History of Oil: Energy, Labor, and Politics
Credit Hours:
3

Course traces the history of the political, economic, and social history of oil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It details the impact of oil on the rise and fall of empires and nations, the social ramifications of the oil industry on local cultures and societies, the role of petrostates in modern geopolitics, and the contribution of the oil industry to the economic and environmental crises.

Instructors of this Course

Associate Professor

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