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Duccio Basosi on David M. Wight’s *Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967-1988*

In Oil Money, historian David Wight convincingly shows how, between the late 1960s and the late 1980s, “petrodollars” – that is, dollar-denominated revenues from international oil transactions – became a Read more

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