Joseph Conlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Conlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Conlin |
| SIGNATURE | CONLIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0394-4931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy. Morgan the Collector: Essays in Honor of Linda Roth’s 40th Anniversary at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
David Gilks, Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution
Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American art in the long nineteenth century
Journal Article Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American art in the long nineteenth century Get access Linda S. Ferber and Margaret R. Laster (eds.), Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American art in the long nineteenth century. Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America 6. University Park (PA), Penn State University Press with the Frick Collection, 2024. isbn978-0-271-09524-0. 222 pp., 72…
Immigrant gifts’: Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater, colonial silver and the limits of ‘Americanization’, 1906–1933
The Clearwater Bequest of 1933 is a landmark in the development of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s holdings of American silver, and in the American Colonial Revival more broadly. Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater (1848–1933) was a judge, antiquary and pillar of society in Kingston, New York. Drawing on the Clearwater papers at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, as well as his correspondence with curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other m…
Adventurer, Saint, Celebrity: The Chevalière Deon's Transgender Selves
The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–1947
The interwar period saw fitful attempts by British, American, French, and Russian interests to secure oil concessions for Iran’s northern provinces, in a region traditionally perceived as a Russian sphere of interest. Drawing on corporate as well as familiar state archives, this article argues that the contest over concessions in this region served political more than narrowly economic agendas. Although this contest was convoluted, repetitive, an…
Fouled by Oil’? Oil Diplomacy and the Lausanne Conference, 1914–1928
The centenary of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty has seen historians challenge the familiar view of this re-settlement of the defeated Ottoman Empire as an enduring success, drawing attention to the ways in which the treaty validated a mandatory population exchange, now viewed as a form of ethnic cleansing. This reappraisal of Lausanne’s place in fashioning a new Middle East order has yet to address oil diplomacy. Competition among governments, oil comp…
Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550–1950
Journal Article Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550–1950 Get access Susan Bracken and Adriana Turpin (eds.), Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550–1950. London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. isbn 978-1-5013-4887-7. 386 pp., 25 col. illus., 52 b. & w. illus. £117. Jonathan Conlin Jonathan Conlin UK [email protected] https://orci…
What’s Mine is Yours. Private collectors and public patronage in the United States. Essays in honor of Inge Reist
Since its foundation in 2007 the Frick Center for the History of Collecting, under the leadership of Inge Reist, has set the agenda for historians of American collecting, with a particular emphasis on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collectors and their agents. These men and women scoured Europe for treasures, many of which were later donated or bequeathed to American public institutions. Between 2011 and 2017, Reist edited or co-edi…
The Libyan War and Student Pan-Islamism: The Edinburgh Declaration of 1911
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The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, politics, and the Monuments Men
Triggered by Lynn H. Nicholas’s book The Rape of Europa: The fate of Europe’s treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (1994), the ‘rediscovery’ of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (mfaa) Programme, established by the American government in 1943 to administer cultural property in war-torn Europe, was a phenomenon. The several hundred ‘Monuments Men’ (the ‘Monuments Women’ fell foul of patriarchy, or perhaps alliteration) became…
Our Dear Reşadiye ’: The Legend and the Loans behind Ottoman Naval Rearmament, 1908–1914
The seizure of the newly-built Ottoman dreadnought Reşadiye by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill on 31 July 1914 is widely held to have spurred the Young Turk regime in Istanbul to contract an alliance with Germany and enter the Great War at its side. This owing to widespread belief (still held by historians today) that it and a second seized dreadnought had been fully paid for by donations to the Ottoman Navy League collected from ac…
Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era, by Oded Y. Steinberg
Oded Y. Steinberg ‘proposes a novel thesis as to how historical periodization converged with racial, national, and religious themes’ (p. 2) in the historical writing and thought of a coterie of influential British and German scholars active in the second half of the nineteenth century: a ‘Gemeinschaft of scholars’ (p. 50) that includes Edward Augustus Freeman, James Bryce, C.C.J. von Bunsen and Friedrich Max Müller. This was the period in which h…
Lost in Transmission? John Berger and the Origins of Ways of Seeing (1972)
The documentary series Ways of Seeing was broadcast on BBC television in January 1972. Directed by Mike Dibb and presented by the marxist critic John Berger, the series addressed the canon of western art history as well as contemporary consumer culture. The conspicuous use of cross-cutting and music along with Berger's emphatic 'talking-head' delivery were employed to dispel the aura enveloping 'original' artworks, and reveal the technologies by …
Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940
Considering that the archive of Duveen Brothers was made accessible to scholars more than twenty years ago, it is remarkable how little our knowledge of this, the twentieth century’s most influential art dealer, has advanced. It would be superfluous to rehearse the shortcomings of Meryle Secrest’s 2004 biography of Joseph Duveen, or the suspicions of earlier, equally impressionistic memoirs of the firm by S. N. Behrman, Edward Fowles and Joseph D…
An Oily Entente: France, Britain, and the Mosul Question, 1916-1925
The First World War saw the emergence of a ‘politics of oil’/politique de pétrole centred on energy security. On both sides of the Channel, ministers toyed with different ways of achieving national ‘control’ of oil, some étatiste, others laissez-faire. With the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamian oil awaited allocation. Considering how little it contributed to the war in the Middle East, France did well out of this allocation. British conc…
Gladstone, Development, and the Discipline of History, 1840–1896
Between 1885 and 1891, the Liberal statesman William Ewart Gladstone debated the scientific status of the Book of Genesis with the natural historian Thomas Henry Huxley in a series of articles published in the Nineteenth Century . Viewed in isolation, this episode has been seen as a case of a professional scientist dismissing an amateur interloper. This article repositions this familiar dispute as one chapter in Gladstone's lifelong engagement wi…
Renowned and unknown’
Combining Impressionist, Barbizon and Dutch seventeenth-century masterpieces with eighteenth-century French and English portraits and Venetian veduti, the collection of paintings formed by the Anglo-Armenian financier and oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian (1869–1955) and now housed in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon closely resembles collections formed by contemporaries such as Henry Frick and Jacques Doucet. The manner of its acquisition, however – …
A Connoisseur and His Clients: The Correspondence of Charles Fairfax Murray with Frederic Burton, Wilhelm Bode and Julius Meyer (1867–1914)
In December 1912 the banker, collector and National Gallery trustee Charles Benson met with Charles Fairfax Murray to go through the London gallery’s ‘desiderata list’. By identifying paintings of paramount significance in private British collections before the latter came on the market, acquisition policy would (so the thinking went) become active rather than reactive. Rival German museums such as those led by Wilhelm von Bode would enjoy fewer …
The Victorian Palace of Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament
Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums – Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung Band 32
Journal Article Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums – Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung Band 32 Get access Corina Meyer , Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums – Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung Band 32 . Berlin , G + H Verlag , 2013 . isbn 978-3-940939-26-5. 550 pp., 135 col. illus. 116 b.…
Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: The National Bank of Turkey, 1909–1919
The National Bank of Turkey (NBT) (1909) was an attempt by the new Young Turk regime to assert economic sovereignty: creating a multinational bank able to provide financing free of the diplomatic conditions previously attached to loans by French banks. NBT's role financing naval rearmament and oil development has attracted a good deal of attention from historians. Using the archives of the bank's founders and Ottoman ministers alongside familiar …
History as Form: Architecture and Liberal Anglican Thought in the Writings of E. A. Freeman
Traditionally viewed as one of the leading lights of Whig history in the High Victorian period, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) is best known for his History of the Norman Conquest (1865–1876). For all his reputation for scholarly pedantry, Freeman had wide-ranging interests, including architecture. His first book, A History of Architecture (1849), was both unique and controversial: unique in being the first history of world architecture in E…
An Illiberal Descent: Natural and National History in the Work of Charles Kingsley
The Victorian novelist, historian and cleric Charles Kingsley (1819–75) was a polymath who took a close interest in natural history. A friend and correspondent of T. H. Huxley and many other leading British and American biologists, Kingsley applied concepts familiar from evolutionary biology in his historical novels and lectures. Rather than being a straightforward case of dressing literary works in language made fashionable and exciting by the b…
Vauxhall on the boulevard: Pleasure gardens in London and Paris, 1764–1784
Open to both aristocracy and middling rank, pleasure gardens fashioned a spectacle of order out of a heterogeneous crowd. They have been seen as uniquely British spaces, demonstrating how Britain juggled commerce, politeness and liberty. Yet these resorts had imitators abroad, especially in Paris. Far from being a case of Paris emulating London, they created a playful fantasy that shuttled visitors between the two cities – helping them imagine th…
Gladstone and Christian Art, 1832–1854
Although his activity as a private collector has been documented, the extent to which William Ewart Gladstone's interest in art was implicated in his thought on church and state has been overlooked. Previously unnoticed memoranda and correspondence of the 1830s and 1840s with the French art historian and Roman Catholic thinker, François Rio, demonstrate a fascination with religious painting of early Renaissance Italy, of the sort which only came …
Fouled by Oil’? Oil Diplomacy and the Lausanne Conference, 1914–1928
The centenary of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty has seen historians challenge the familiar view of this re-settlement of the defeated Ottoman Empire as an enduring success, drawing attention to the ways in which the treaty validated a mandatory population exchange, now viewed as a form of ethnic cleansing. This reappraisal of Lausanne’s place in fashioning a new Middle East order has yet to address oil diplomacy. Competition among governments, oil comp…
An Oily Entente: France, Britain, and the Mosul Question, 1916-1925
The First World War saw the emergence of a ‘politics of oil’/politique de pétrole centred on energy security. On both sides of the Channel, ministers toyed with different ways of achieving national ‘control’ of oil, some étatiste, others laissez-faire. With the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamian oil awaited allocation. Considering how little it contributed to the war in the Middle East, France did well out of this allocation. British conc…
An Illiberal Descent: Natural and National History in the Work of Charles Kingsley
The Victorian novelist, historian and cleric Charles Kingsley (1819–75) was a polymath who took a close interest in natural history. A friend and correspondent of T. H. Huxley and many other leading British and American biologists, Kingsley applied concepts familiar from evolutionary biology in his historical novels and lectures. Rather than being a straightforward case of dressing literary works in language made fashionable and exciting by the b…
Vauxhall on the boulevard: Pleasure gardens in London and Paris, 1764–1784
Open to both aristocracy and middling rank, pleasure gardens fashioned a spectacle of order out of a heterogeneous crowd. They have been seen as uniquely British spaces, demonstrating how Britain juggled commerce, politeness and liberty. Yet these resorts had imitators abroad, especially in Paris. Far from being a case of Paris emulating London, they created a playful fantasy that shuttled visitors between the two cities – helping them imagine th…
Vauxhall Revisited: The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: The National Bank of Turkey, 1909–1919
The National Bank of Turkey (NBT) (1909) was an attempt by the new Young Turk regime to assert economic sovereignty: creating a multinational bank able to provide financing free of the diplomatic conditions previously attached to loans by French banks. NBT's role financing naval rearmament and oil development has attracted a good deal of attention from historians. Using the archives of the bank's founders and Ottoman ministers alongside familiar …
History as Form: Architecture and Liberal Anglican Thought in the Writings of E. A. Freeman
Traditionally viewed as one of the leading lights of Whig history in the High Victorian period, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) is best known for his History of the Norman Conquest (1865–1876). For all his reputation for scholarly pedantry, Freeman had wide-ranging interests, including architecture. His first book, A History of Architecture (1849), was both unique and controversial: unique in being the first history of world architecture in E…
Wilkes, the Chevalier D'Eon and ‘the Dregs of Liberty’: An Anglo-French Perspective on Ministerial Despotism, 1762–1771
In the immediate aftermath of the Seven Years' War, both the British and French regimes underwent a crisis of confidence. Unable or unwilling to criticise Louis XV and George III directly, critics targeted ‘favourites’ and ‘ministerial despots’, accusing them of adopting unconstitutional measures in an attempt to regain lost financial and political credibility. Efforts to locate this travestied constitution, however, found notions of parliamentar…
The comrade: An introduction and appraisal
Books reviewed
Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790–1975. By Dolores Hayden. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976. ix, 401 pp. $16.95. Urban Masses And Moral Order In America, 1820–1920. By Paul Boyer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. xi, 387 pp. $18.50. Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xvi, 168 pp. $12.95. Harpers Ferr…
Gladstone and Christian Art, 1832–1854
Although his activity as a private collector has been documented, the extent to which William Ewart Gladstone's interest in art was implicated in his thought on church and state has been overlooked. Previously unnoticed memoranda and correspondence of the 1830s and 1840s with the French art historian and Roman Catholic thinker, François Rio, demonstrate a fascination with religious painting of early Renaissance Italy, of the sort which only came …
The public Art Museum in nineteenth-century Britain: The development of the National Gallery
Christopher Whitehead, The public Art Museum in nineteenth-century Britain: The development of the National Gallery. Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0754632369. 290 pp., 25 b. & w. illus. £47.50. In contrast to the excellent historical accounts of the development of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery remains woefully neglected. Christopher Whitehead's book is therefore particularly valuable, not …
Wilkes, the Chevalier D'Eon and ‘the Dregs of Liberty’: An Anglo-French Perspective on Ministerial Despotism, 1762–1771
In the immediate aftermath of the Seven Years' War, both the British and French regimes underwent a crisis of confidence. Unable or unwilling to criticise Louis XV and George III directly, critics targeted ‘favourites’ and ‘ministerial despots’, accusing them of adopting unconstitutional measures in an attempt to regain lost financial and political credibility. Efforts to locate this travestied constitution, however, found notions of parliamentar…
Vauxhall Revisited: The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Vauxhall on the boulevard: Pleasure gardens in London and Paris, 1764–1784
Open to both aristocracy and middling rank, pleasure gardens fashioned a spectacle of order out of a heterogeneous crowd. They have been seen as uniquely British spaces, demonstrating how Britain juggled commerce, politeness and liberty. Yet these resorts had imitators abroad, especially in Paris. Far from being a case of Paris emulating London, they created a playful fantasy that shuttled visitors between the two cities – helping them imagine th…
History as Form: Architecture and Liberal Anglican Thought in the Writings of E. A. Freeman
Traditionally viewed as one of the leading lights of Whig history in the High Victorian period, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) is best known for his History of the Norman Conquest (1865–1876). For all his reputation for scholarly pedantry, Freeman had wide-ranging interests, including architecture. His first book, A History of Architecture (1849), was both unique and controversial: unique in being the first history of world architecture in E…
An Illiberal Descent: Natural and National History in the Work of Charles Kingsley
The Victorian novelist, historian and cleric Charles Kingsley (1819–75) was a polymath who took a close interest in natural history. A friend and correspondent of T. H. Huxley and many other leading British and American biologists, Kingsley applied concepts familiar from evolutionary biology in his historical novels and lectures. Rather than being a straightforward case of dressing literary works in language made fashionable and exciting by the b…
Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums – Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung Band 32
Journal Article Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums – Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung Band 32 Get access Corina Meyer , Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums – Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung Band 32 . Berlin , G + H Verlag , 2013 . isbn 978-3-940939-26-5. 550 pp., 135 col. illus. 116 b.…
Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: The National Bank of Turkey, 1909–1919
The National Bank of Turkey (NBT) (1909) was an attempt by the new Young Turk regime to assert economic sovereignty: creating a multinational bank able to provide financing free of the diplomatic conditions previously attached to loans by French banks. NBT's role financing naval rearmament and oil development has attracted a good deal of attention from historians. Using the archives of the bank's founders and Ottoman ministers alongside familiar …
Renowned and unknown’
Combining Impressionist, Barbizon and Dutch seventeenth-century masterpieces with eighteenth-century French and English portraits and Venetian veduti, the collection of paintings formed by the Anglo-Armenian financier and oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian (1869–1955) and now housed in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon closely resembles collections formed by contemporaries such as Henry Frick and Jacques Doucet. The manner of its acquisition, however – …
A Connoisseur and His Clients: The Correspondence of Charles Fairfax Murray with Frederic Burton, Wilhelm Bode and Julius Meyer (1867–1914)
In December 1912 the banker, collector and National Gallery trustee Charles Benson met with Charles Fairfax Murray to go through the London gallery’s ‘desiderata list’. By identifying paintings of paramount significance in private British collections before the latter came on the market, acquisition policy would (so the thinking went) become active rather than reactive. Rival German museums such as those led by Wilhelm von Bode would enjoy fewer …
The Victorian Palace of Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament
Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940
Considering that the archive of Duveen Brothers was made accessible to scholars more than twenty years ago, it is remarkable how little our knowledge of this, the twentieth century’s most influential art dealer, has advanced. It would be superfluous to rehearse the shortcomings of Meryle Secrest’s 2004 biography of Joseph Duveen, or the suspicions of earlier, equally impressionistic memoirs of the firm by S. N. Behrman, Edward Fowles and Joseph D…
An Oily Entente: France, Britain, and the Mosul Question, 1916-1925
The First World War saw the emergence of a ‘politics of oil’/politique de pétrole centred on energy security. On both sides of the Channel, ministers toyed with different ways of achieving national ‘control’ of oil, some étatiste, others laissez-faire. With the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamian oil awaited allocation. Considering how little it contributed to the war in the Middle East, France did well out of this allocation. British conc…
Gladstone, Development, and the Discipline of History, 1840–1896
Between 1885 and 1891, the Liberal statesman William Ewart Gladstone debated the scientific status of the Book of Genesis with the natural historian Thomas Henry Huxley in a series of articles published in the Nineteenth Century . Viewed in isolation, this episode has been seen as a case of a professional scientist dismissing an amateur interloper. This article repositions this familiar dispute as one chapter in Gladstone's lifelong engagement wi…
The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, politics, and the Monuments Men
Triggered by Lynn H. Nicholas’s book The Rape of Europa: The fate of Europe’s treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (1994), the ‘rediscovery’ of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (mfaa) Programme, established by the American government in 1943 to administer cultural property in war-torn Europe, was a phenomenon. The several hundred ‘Monuments Men’ (the ‘Monuments Women’ fell foul of patriarchy, or perhaps alliteration) became…
Our Dear Reşadiye ’: The Legend and the Loans behind Ottoman Naval Rearmament, 1908–1914
The seizure of the newly-built Ottoman dreadnought Reşadiye by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill on 31 July 1914 is widely held to have spurred the Young Turk regime in Istanbul to contract an alliance with Germany and enter the Great War at its side. This owing to widespread belief (still held by historians today) that it and a second seized dreadnought had been fully paid for by donations to the Ottoman Navy League collected from ac…
Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era, by Oded Y. Steinberg
Oded Y. Steinberg ‘proposes a novel thesis as to how historical periodization converged with racial, national, and religious themes’ (p. 2) in the historical writing and thought of a coterie of influential British and German scholars active in the second half of the nineteenth century: a ‘Gemeinschaft of scholars’ (p. 50) that includes Edward Augustus Freeman, James Bryce, C.C.J. von Bunsen and Friedrich Max Müller. This was the period in which h…
Lost in Transmission? John Berger and the Origins of Ways of Seeing (1972)
The documentary series Ways of Seeing was broadcast on BBC television in January 1972. Directed by Mike Dibb and presented by the marxist critic John Berger, the series addressed the canon of western art history as well as contemporary consumer culture. The conspicuous use of cross-cutting and music along with Berger's emphatic 'talking-head' delivery were employed to dispel the aura enveloping 'original' artworks, and reveal the technologies by …
What’s Mine is Yours. Private collectors and public patronage in the United States. Essays in honor of Inge Reist
Since its foundation in 2007 the Frick Center for the History of Collecting, under the leadership of Inge Reist, has set the agenda for historians of American collecting, with a particular emphasis on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collectors and their agents. These men and women scoured Europe for treasures, many of which were later donated or bequeathed to American public institutions. Between 2011 and 2017, Reist edited or co-edi…
The Libyan War and Student Pan-Islamism: The Edinburgh Declaration of 1911
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550–1950
Journal Article Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550–1950 Get access Susan Bracken and Adriana Turpin (eds.), Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550–1950. London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. isbn 978-1-5013-4887-7. 386 pp., 25 col. illus., 52 b. & w. illus. £117. Jonathan Conlin Jonathan Conlin UK [email protected] https://orci…
The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–1947
The interwar period saw fitful attempts by British, American, French, and Russian interests to secure oil concessions for Iran’s northern provinces, in a region traditionally perceived as a Russian sphere of interest. Drawing on corporate as well as familiar state archives, this article argues that the contest over concessions in this region served political more than narrowly economic agendas. Although this contest was convoluted, repetitive, an…
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