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The oil road, journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index

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The oil road

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James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

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. --Book Jacket

Machine generated contents note: 1.It Has to Be the Caspian -- 2.You Can See Where the President Gets His Iron Gloves -- 3.They Alone Can Light for Us the Road to the Promised Land -- 4.Lots of Empty Skyscrapers That We Can't Keep Clean -- 5.The Wide Stream of Oil Gushed Over the Greasy Earth -- 6.If the Pipeline Burns, I'll Burn with It -- 7.Schrader's Instruction Is Paper for the Toilet -- 8.Do You Have Any Books? -- 9.Without Having to Amend Local Laws, We Went Above or Around Them by Using a Treaty -- 10.We Closed It Down to the Media -- 11.We Live in a Corridor of Violence -- 12.It Is Ash to the Eyes -- 13.I Will Stop You, I'll Smash Your Camera! -- 14.No-one Wants this Pipeline on Their CV. It's an Embarrassment -- 15.The Trench Sides Could Collapse On Top of Children -- 16.Don't Sleep-Save Your Sea -- 17.Military Forces Sanitise the Area Ahead of the Merchant Ships -- 18.They Have Long Arms... Like the Arms of an Octopus -- 19.The Caspian! --Contents note continued: 20.This Is the Auschwitz Generation, and There's No Arguing with Them -- 21.A Liquid Distilled from a Fossilised Ecosystem

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