Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Acknowledgements 1
6. 1 Refining Knowledge: Building the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the Abadan Refinery 49
7. 2 The City of Oil: Social Reproduction, Infrastructure and Anti-colonial Resistance in Abadan 83
8. 3 The ‘Character’ of Engineering: Training, Subjectivity and Knowledge Production in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 123
9. 4 The City of Science: Labour, Epistemic Struggle and Everyday Politics in the Abadan Refinery, 1946–1951 165
10. 5 Expertise, Resource Nationalism and the Paradoxes of Oil Nationalisation in Iran 211
11. 6 Nationalisation from Below: The 1951 General Strike 238
12. Epilogue: Nationalised Oil and the Paradoxes of Decolonisation 266
13. Bibliography 277
14. Index 304