Oil and empire : British policy and Mesopotamian oil, 1900-1920 / By Marian Kent.

Contents: Part I: The background -- Introductory -- British policy and interests in Mesopotamia to 1920 -- Early rivalries for the Mesopotamian oil concession, 1900-12 -- Part II: Examination of the British government's involvement in the Mesopotamian oil concession negotiations, 1912-14 -- The Anglo-German rivalry intensifies, 1912-13 -- Coming to an agreement : analysis of amalgamation negotiations, 1913-14 -- The concession gained and lost, 1914-15 -- Part III: Exigencies of war and provision for peace : oil policy and territorial desiderata -- The War, 1914-18 -- Unmaking the Sykes-Picot Agreement : oil negotiations November 1918-April 1920 -- Appendixes: I. The 1904 'Zander' contract -- II: Correspondence between the Minister of the Civil List and the Anatolian Railway Company, 1905-7 -- III: Arrangements for fusion of the interests in Turkish petroleum concessions of the D'Arcy Group and of the Turkish Petroleum Company, 1914 -- IV: Oil agreements, 1919-20 ; The Long-Berenger Agreement ; The Greenwood-Berenger Agreement and the Berthelot-Cadman (San Remo) Agreement ; Heads of agreement of the Royal Dutch/ShelllBritish Government Agreement, 1919 -- V: The 'transferred territories' -- VI: Note on government mineral oil organisation during the First World War -- VII: Directors of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Shell Transport and Trading Company, 1911-28, and of the Turkish Petroleum Company, 1912-28 -- VIII: Some statistics: World production of petroleum, 1913-20 ; Official London oil prices, 1911-24 ; UK petroleum imports, 1900-19 ; Sources of UK petroleum imports, 1900-19 ; Estimate of return obtained by H.M. Government on their original investment of £2,200,000 in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd -- IX: Maps: The Middle East ; Mesopotamia and neighbouring areas, 1915-20.

Notes p. 214-249; bibliogr. p. 250-260; index p. 263-273