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Persian Petroleum

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Speaker:  Leonardo Davoudi, Researcher, Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford Centre for Global History, Oxford University; Author, Persian Petroleum

Striking oil in the Middle East transformed the modern geostrategic landscape. It galvanized great-power rivalries, exacerbated regional fractures, and fostered animosity towards foreign interference. Using newly-uncovered private papers, Persian Petroleum delves into the region's first oil find, at the turn of the twentieth century, to reveal the geopolitical setting, domestic context, and widespread intrigue that led to the creation of one of the world's largest oil companies.

Everyone is welcome to join us via Zoom! Please register before the event:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlf-uvrT8uHtybNp4cdpEdxDQ9KmCVr5TV 

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The Well number one (Masjed Soleyman Well) was first oil well in Iran. The well was drilled on January 23, 1908 by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

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Speaker:  Leonardo Davoudi, Researcher, Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford Centre for Global History, Oxford University; Author, Persian Petroleum

Striking oil in the Middle East transformed the modern geostrategic landscape. It galvanized great-power rivalries, exacerbated regional fractures, and fostered animosity towards foreign interference. Using newly-uncovered private papers, Persian Petroleum delves into the region's first oil find, at the turn of the twentieth century, to reveal the geopolitical setting, domestic context, and widespread intrigue that led to the creation of one of the world's largest oil companies.

Privileged British financial interests coalesced with the military-imperial establishment through the informal dealings of politicians, investors, civil servants, and intermediaries. On the Iranian side, a recently formed constitutional government inherited the situation amidst a period of upheaval marked by political assassinations, riots, coups, and a ground invasion. The book explores the interrelation of all of these developments in order to understand the origins of the lasting animus between Iran and Western powers.

Everyone is welcome to join us via Zoom! Please register before the event:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlf-uvrT8uHtybNp4cdpEdxDQ9KmCVr5TV 

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