商品簡介
Journalist and Arab and Islamic scholar Keating describes the intrigue and power politics surrounding the discovery of oil fields in the Arabian peninsula between the world wars. New Zealand geologist Frank Holmes who found and mapped the oil fields; Winston Churchill; the British administration in India; Harry Philby, father of Soviet spy Kim; Abdul Aziz bin Saud, proclaimed king in 1932, Herbert Hoover, consulting engineer for the mining industry and later US president; and British archaeologist Gertrude Bell are among the well known figures with fingers in the pie. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Aileen Keating, Ph.D. was associated with the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at Australian National University, Canberra. She came to academia after a twenty-year career as an international journalist, having worked as the Arab Gulf Reporter for Time, Fortune, and Life.
