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Energy Kingdoms

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Energy Kingdoms

By Jim Krane

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After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain--went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some of the highest consumption rates on earth. Today, as summertime temperatures set new records, the Gulf's rulers find themselves caugh...Show more

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ISBN

9780231179300

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Energy Kingdoms

Format

Hardcover

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