How oil become the world’s most contested resource
Keith Fisher’s A Pipeline Runs Through It charts how oil revolutionised transport and war, and continues to shape today’s geopolitics.
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Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms is a history professor and New Statesman contributing writer.
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