@article{1386637,
      recid = {1386637},
      author = {Shafiee, Katayoun,},
      title = {Machineries of oil : an infrastructural history of BP in  Iran /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book rethinks the politics of the Middle East through  a study of the British-controlled oil industry in Iran  between 1901 and 1954. Based on research in governmental  and business archives in Iran, the United Kingdom, and the  United States, it examines a series of disputes concerning  petroleum exploration, property rights, the organization of  labor, geological knowledge, accounting methods, oil  distribution, and the calculation and control of profits.  The goal is to understand how the construction of oil  infrastructure reconfigured the local politics of the oil  regions and how these arrangements in turn shaped the  emergence of both the national state and the multinational  oil corporation now known as BP. There has been no study of  this kind, with the amount of rich, first-hand information  Shafiee has gathered from Iran and elsewhere. Shafiee  rethinks the role of oil in the early to mid-twentieth  century as a non-human actor whose agency shapes and is  shaped by the various techno-social transformations she  discusses. She combines archival research with extensive  field work at various sites in Iran--sources that are  missing from the scholarship on both Iran and the oil  industry.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386637},
}