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Standard Oil and the Battle for the Ottoman Market, 1864-1914 / Patrick, Andrew

Patrick, Andrew	Journal Article
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Scholars have rarely acknowledged that international oil companies first entered the Middle East to sell oil rather than to seek sources of it. The arrival of American kerosene in 1864 began this understudied preamble to the region’s oil history, with Standard Oil dominating the Ottoman market until the 1880s. Russian oil then flooded the market and pushed Standard Oil out by the 1890s, though Standard had regained a foothold before World War I. This article draws two major conclusions from this market battle. First, the competition for the Ottoman market demonstrates that it was the contest for oil markets, more than the fight for oil sources, that led to the global oil industry’s cartelisation in the early twentieth century. Second, this study shows how an American multinational pressured the United States government to expand its regional presence, thus helping to elucidate the deepening of American engagement with the Middle East.

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Oil ; Battle for the Ottoman Market ; 1864-1914

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These people know about us: a reconsideration of greater Syrian attitudes towards the United States in the first world war era / Patrick, Andrew

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2014.

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This article casts a sceptical eye on the seemingly glowing reputation of the United States amongst the elites of Greater Syria during the First World War era. It argues that although this reputation was based on genuine appreciation of good deeds performed by Americans in the region, it was also based on a mistaken impression of the nature of America's global role in this era and was most likely not as emphatic as it sometimes appears in the historical record. In doing this, the article seeks to raise questions about the place that such utterances should occupy in histories of the modern Middle East.

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United States ; Greater Syria ; Modern Middle East ; World War I

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Woodrow Wilson, the Ottomans, and World War I / Patrick, Andrew

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Woodrow Wilson ; World War I ; Ottomans

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