عنوان

From the Camel to the Cadillac: Automobility, Consumption, and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship

Number

TL48034

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

From the Camel to the Cadillac: Automobility, Consumption, and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Paul Reed Baltimore

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Yaqub, Salim

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Santa Barbara

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

343

Text of Note

Committee members: Gallagher, Nancy; Ghosh, Bishnupriya; Spickard, Paul

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-34912-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

University of California, Santa Barbara

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

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.

American history; World History

Subject Term

Social sciences;Cadillac;Camel;Saudi arabia;United states

Veliyathuparambil, Deepthi Thomas

Yaqub, Salim

Subdivision

History

University of California, Santa Barbara

Call Number

1638271483; 3645609

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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