A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order

by Engdahl, F. William

• ISBN13: 9781615774920
• ISBN10: 1615774920
• Edition: NEW REV UN
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-29
• Publisher: Progressive Pr

Summary

This Book is a Gripping Account of the Murky World of The Anglo-American Oil Industry and its Hidden Role in World Politics. Book jacket.

Author Biography

William Engdahl takes the reader through the history of how seven giant oil companies - five American and two British - developed a controlling grip on the world's economy, unprecedented in history. This is no ordinary history of oil. It is a history of global politics, more precisely of global geopolitics - how control of strategic geographical pivot regions enabled first British and later American interests to control in large part the world economy. F. William Engdahl writes on issues of oil, finance, economics, and geopolitics for more than thirty years. His books have been translated into more than nine languages, and the present book is regarded as a classic on the subject of contemporary geopolitics and power politics. He has contributed regularly to numerous international publications including Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, China Business News, Asia Inc., Grant's Interest Rate Observe, European Banker, Eurasia and other publications.

Table of Contents

Author's Introduction to the 2011 English Edition	p. iii
Preface to 2004 edition	p. vii
The Three Pillars of the British Empire	p. 1
Free Trade and the Sinews of British Power	p. 3
Britain's 'Informal Empire'	p. 6
The Great Depression of 1873	p. 9
The Lines are Drawn: Germany and the Geopolitics of the Great War	p. 15
Germany's Wirtschaftswunder	p. 15
A Berlin Bank Panic	p. 19
The Necessity of Ship and Rail Infrastructure	p. 20
A Global Fight for Control of Petroleum Begins	p. 25
A British Admiral sees beyond lamp oil	p. 25
D'Arcy captures the secret of the burning rocks	p. 26
By rail from Berlin to Baghdad	p. 28
The new Dreadnaughts	p. 34
Earl Grey's fateful Paris trip	p. 36
Fashoda, Witte, Great Projects and Great Mistakes	p. 37
Oil Becomes the Weapon, the Near East the Battleground	p. 43
A Bankrupt Britain Goes to War	p. 43
Oil in the Great War	p. 46
The Secret Eastern War	p. 48
'Selling the same horse twice'	p. 51
Arthur Balfour's fateful letter to Lord Rothschild	p. 53
Balfour backs the new concept of Empire	p. 55
Combined & Conflicting Goals: U.S. Rivals Britain	p. 61
Morgan finances the British war	p. 61
New York bankers challenge the City of London	p. 67
England Moves for Oil Supremacy	p. 70
Churchill and the Arab Bureau	p. 72
A Battle for Control of Mexico	p. 73
The secret of British Oil control	p. 74
The Anglo-Americans Close Ranks	p. 79
A conference in Genoa	p. 79
Sinclair and the American bid	p. 80
Germany Tries to Outflank the British	p. 82
Military Occupation of the Ruhr	p. 85
The Real Origins of the Weimar Hyperinflation	p. 86
An Anglo-American Red Line	p. 90
Deterding, Montagu Norman and Schacht's 'Hitler Project'	p. 91
Oil and a New World Order of Bretton Woods	p. 103
A New Empire rises from the ashes of war	p. 103
The Dollar Standard, 'Big Oil' and New York Banks	p. 105
Marshall Plan forms postwar oil hegemony	p. 107
The power of New York Banks tied to U.S. Oil	p. 109
Mohammed Mossadegh takes on Anglo-American oil	p. 110
Italy attempts independence in oil and development	p. 117
Mattei's bold development initiative	p. 119
A Sterling Crisis and the Adenauer-de Gaulle Threat	p. 127
Continental Europe emerges from the rubble of war	p. 127
Anglo-American grand design against Europe	p. 130
1957: America at the turning point	p. 131
'That 58 Chevy…'	p. 133
The dollar wars of the 1960's	p. 135
The Vietnam option is taken	p. 138
The beginnings of America's internal rot	p. 141
Sterling, the weak link, breaks	p. 145
De Gaulle is toppled	p. 150
Running the World Economy in Reverse: Who Made the 1970's Oil Shocks?	p. 155
Nixon pulls the plug	p. 155
An unusual meeting in Saltsjoebaden	p. 158
Kissinger's Yom Kippur oil shock	p. 164
The economic impact of the oil shock	p. 167
Taking the bloom off the 'nuclear rose'	p. 170
Developing the Anglo-American green agenda	p. 173
Population control becomes US 'national security'	p. 177
Europe, Japan and a Response to the Oil Shock	p. 181
'Petrodollar Monetary Order' devastates the developing world	p. 181
From Colombo comes a political earthquake	p. 188
Atoms for Peace becomes a Casus Belli	p. 194
Gold, dollar crises and dangerous new potentials from Europe	p. 198
The 'Crash of 1979': Iran and Volcker	p. 202
Imposing the New World Order	p. 215
Paul Volcker borrows a British model	p. 215
Gunboat diplomacy, and a Mexican initiative	p. 222
Wall Street replays the 1920's, IMF-style	p. 231
Reagan's chickens come home to roost	p. 239
'We'll get by with a little help from our friends…'	p. 248
The fall of a wall panics some circles	p. 250
Saddam: Operation Desert Storm and a New World Order	p. 255
The target: an independent Europe and Japan	p. 261
From Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil	p. 267
Finding the new bogeyman	p. 267
Japan: wounding the lead goose	p. 269
Phase Two: hunting Asian Tigers	p. 273
Washington revisits Halford Mackinder	p. 276
Russia gets IMF third world cure	p. 279
Yugoslavia gets the shock therapy	p. 284
U.S. oil geopolitics in the Balkans	p. 288
A New Millennium for Oil Geopolitics	p. 297
Bush brings big oil back to Washington	p. 297
'where the prize ultimately lies…'	p. 299
'The New American Century'	p. 302
From Kabul to Baghdad: war on terror or war on oil?	p. 304
'You've got to go where the oil is…'	p. 307
Putin's Energy Trump Card	p. 311
Controlling Russia and its energy	p. 313
Oil and bases-controlling the spigots	p. 316
'Full spectrum dominance'	p. 320
Appendix I	p. 327
Founding members of Trilateral Commission in 1973	p. 327
Appendix II	p. 331
Some participants at Saltsjoebaden, Sweden meeting of Bilderberg Group on May 11-13-1973	p. 331
Index	p. 335
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