The historical development of capital has produced a progressive increase inthe demand for raw material and has consequently resulted in the concentrationof cap... » 

The historical development of capital has produced a progressive increase inthe demand for raw material and has consequently resulted in the concentrationof capital in and the geographical expansion of the production of naturalresources globalizing and intensifying the competition for the control ofproduction and markets.This book is an attempt to explain at the theoretical and empirical levelthe relationship between the production of oil and the process of intercapitalist competition in the global economy and why it is necessary toappreciate the underlying process of the social production of space indetermining the access to and control of global oil production and worldmarkets. It will appeal to those undertaking research in political economyeconomic geography resource geography and international relations. «