Oil: Conflict, Chaos and Climate Change (TRIH ep 168)
1990 · Resource
This episode is the second Rest Is History instalment focused on oil, featuring Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge. Thompson and the hosts (Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) examine oil's political and geopolitical influence across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: how US oil shaped domestic politics (notably Texas and figures like Lyndon B. Johnson), cultural reflections in shows like Dallas, and the role of oil in both Gulf Wars. They discuss Europe's faile...
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