| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Steve Marsh. Anglo-American Relations and Cold War Oil. (Cold War History Series.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. x, 278. $72.00.

By 1945, Middle Eastern oil was regarded as a national security interest by both the United States and Great Britain. With the outbreak of the Cold War, Great Britain assumed primary responsibility for the defense of Western interests in the Middle East. However, British mismanagement and ineptitude in two major crises, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) by the Iranian government in 1951 and the subsequent 1956 Suez crisis, forced a reappraisal of American defense policy in the region. Much has been written about the significance of the Suez crisis to Anglo-American relations and Cold War politics, but the first of the two crises has received less attention. In this book, Steve Marsh provides a lively and readable account of the impact of the crisis in Iran on Anglo-American relations, the Cold War, and oil diplomacy.

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