Introduction: The cash value of decoonization
One Periphery: The Creation of Sovereign Rights, 1949-1955
Past Concessions : The Arab League, Sovereign Rights, and OPEC, 1955-1960
Histories of Petroleum Colonization : Oil Elites and Sovereign Rights, 1960-1967
Rights and Failure : The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo
Nationalist Heroes : Imperial Withdrawal, the Cold War, and Oil Control, 1967-1970
A Turning Point of Our History : The Insurrectionists and Oil, 1970-1971
A Fact of Life : The Consolidation of Sovereign Rights, 1971-1973
The OPEC Syndrome : The Third World's Energy Crisis, 1973-1975.