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The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

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By (author): James Marriott Mika Minio-Paluello

In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello track the concealed routes along which flows the lifeblood of our economy. The stupendous resource of Azerbaijani crude has long inspired dreams of a world remade. From the revolutionary Futurism of the capital city, Baku, in the 1920s to the unblinking Capitalism of modern London, the drive to control the region's oil reserves - and hence people and events - has shattered environments and shaped societies.
In The Oil Road, the human scale of village life in the Caucasus Mountains and the plains of Anatolia is suddenly, and sometimes fatally, confronted by the almost ungraspable scale of the oil corporation BP. Pipelines and tanker routes tie the fraying social democracies of Italy, Austria and Germany to the repressive regimes of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. A web of financial and political institutions in London stitches together the lives of metropolis and village.
Building on a decade of study with Platform, Marriott and Minio-Paluello guide us through a previously obscured landscape of energy production and consumption, resistance and profit that has marked Europe for over a century. They blend the empathy of committed travel writing with the precision of investigative journalism in a timely book of compelling urgency.
The human race travels the Oil Road, and this book helps us to realize where we are heading and why it is time to change direction. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 752g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Sep 2012
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781844676460

About James MarriottMika Minio-Paluello

James Marriott is an artist naturalist activist and co-author of The Next Gulf: London Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria.Based in Cairo Mika Minio-Paluello is a sailor beekeeper and campaigner for social movements resisting oil companies. Both work for Platform a London-based arts human rights and environmental justice organisation (www.platformlondon.org).

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