Abstract

Petroleum Politics

This article presents information on the book "Oelpolitik und angelsächsischer Imperialismus," by Karl Hoffmann. This is a familiar kind of German book. It consists of 430 large-size pages and hardly a sentence without its facts and thoughts. Beginning with the appearance of oil on the international stage, it takes the reader to every country of the world, to the directoral offices of every oil company in the world, and to almost every major and minor political event in the last decade in order to show the connection between these and oil imperialism. Though the result is a mixture of very germane points with considerable more or less irrelevant data, this is undoubtedly the best book on petroleum politics ever published and might well be translated into English, after expert pruning.