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Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili

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Oil Tankers - What Happened in the Eight Month Period?

The 19 67 arab israeli war's greatest effect was the way it book ended this era of anti colonial revolt. The canal was closed for eight years, and some of those changes that we saw emerging in the 19 fifties were consolidated in that period. Suddenly the european states were like, what? Were too dependent on the and the oil that is coming from the gulf. Huge amounts of investment poured into already underway, half hearted explorations for oil that was not dependent on the suez canal.

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