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" From the Camel to the Cadillac: Automobility, Consumption, and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship "
Paul Reed Baltimore
Yaqub, Salim
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803252
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TL48034
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1638271483; 3645609
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Veliyathuparambil, Deepthi Thomas
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From the Camel to the Cadillac: Automobility, Consumption, and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship\ Paul Reed BaltimoreYaqub, Salim
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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2014
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Ph.D.
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History
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2014
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343
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Committee members: Gallagher, Nancy; Ghosh, Bishnupriya; Spickard, Paul
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-34912-2
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In the decades following World War II, the United States and Saudi Arabia participated together in a transnational culture of consumption rooted in the intimate link between petroleum and the automobile. Diplomatic and economic relations between these two countries evolved in tandem with a global petroleum order that underwrote American domestic prosperity and a consumerist ethos built on automobility. At the same time, U.S. and Saudi policymakers and business leaders encouraged expanded mobility in Saudi Arabia, including the importation of cars and trucks, and the infrastructure necessary to support them. As the Saudis' adoption of the steel-and-petroleum car drew the kingdom further into the system of automobility, it not only gradually standardized Saudi urban movement, but also reshaped culture, society and notions of class in Saudi Arabia along consumerist lines. Through their central positions in the petroleum order, the economies of Saudi Arabia and the United States were progressively linked from the 1950s through the 1970s in a so-called 'special relationship' based on mutual interest in global consumer capitalism. This interdependence was revealed dramatically with the oil price hikes of 1973-1974, when Saudi Arabia insisted on full participation in the system, including management of its natural resources and rapid development of its own technocratic, mass consumption society.
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American history; World History
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Social sciences;Cadillac;Camel;Saudi arabia;United states
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Yaqub, Salim
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HistoryUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
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