America's Kingdom(English, Paperback, Vitalis Robert)

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America's Kingdom(English, Paperback, Vitalis Robert) is written by Vitalis Robert and published by Verso Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1844673138 (ISBN 10) and 9781844673131 (ISBN 13).

Now newly updated, America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal": oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and Aramco quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise. From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps, to the consolidation of America's Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today, this is a meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.