TY - BOOK AU - Kent,Marian TI - Oil and empire: British policy and Mesopotamian oil, 1900-1920 SN - 0333154517 : AV - HD9576.I72 K4 U1 - 333.82 PY - 1976/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - Petroleum industry and trade KW - Great Britain KW - Middle East N1 - Based on the author's thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science; Includes bibliography and index N2 - Examined the efforts of the British Government to obtain a safeguard oil supplies for the armed forces and the economy ER -