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Item No. 204: F. William Engdahl: A Century of War. Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order This is no ordinary book on the history of oil. Rather, it is an unusual account of how certain powerful financial interests have developed the role of oil as a coldly calculated weapon in their arsenal of world power politics. As early as the outbreak of the First World War, England was in the leading ranks of those few intent on controlling the known reserves of the new "black gold." Oil also lubricated an Anglo-American special relationship which developed in the aftermath of the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference. The two countries bound together the power of oil and of international finance, into one of the most devastating combinations of political hegemony in history. The book reveals how this Anglo-American New World Order has been shaped around the invisible thread of strategic petroleum and raw materials control. It also relates the shocking and heretofore unknown details of a 1973 private gathering in Saltsjoebaden Sweden where a planned 400°0 oil price shock was proposed, to prop up a faltering dollar empire. The author illuminates the role of oil politics in the establishment of a new postwar "informal empire" of neo-colonialism, and in doing so, presents a provocative history of the past hundred years, while managing to avoid usual cliches of "right" and "left." Comments about the book:"...intellectually penetrating in its grasp of the conditions under which politicians have to operate in the modern world. The scholarship is impeccable and it elucidates the lamentable record of the crimes and follies of the few who stretched the levers of power almost to the breaking point. I recommend this book to all who wish to know how the world is really run, what are the systems behind the sub-systems we perceive in the daily media, and what are the antecedents of the present global political dilemmas. Above all, I recommend this book to readers in the Third World as a faithful account of why my generation of political leaders failed to achieve the reasonable expectations of their political constituencies."—Dr. Frederick Wills, former Foreign Minister, Guyana "This book is not for the timid or the inattentative. It gets down to bed-rock ... It is a fine bit of work and defines better the real problem areas of our society..."—Cola Fletcher-Prouty, USAF (ret.), author, "The Secret Team" and the real-life 'Mr. X' of JFK movie "...one of the most readable books l have seen. It will shock people, but it is needed. William Engdahl has found a common thread that ties hundreds of events which, at first glance appear to be unassociated... fully surpasses my standards for a worthwhile book."--Leon D. Richardson, Far East financial columnist, industrialist, advisory board, Sloan School of Management, MIT
282 pp ., 5.25x8.25" pb., index, b/w ill. (1993) , ISBN: - Price with shipping for delivery to: USA Canada (Air) Overseas (surface mail) Overseas (airmail) US$: 19 21 25 27 Put in cart:	Compare Prices