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- Title
OIL SHOCKED: A MICROHISTORY OF THE FIRST DAYS OF THE ENERGY CRISIS, OCTOBER 16-27, 1973.
- Authors
DAVIES, JACK
- Abstract
This microhistory analyses in close detail the American reaction to the 1973 oil crisis over its first days, 16-27 October. It examines a broad range of sources from that period -- including newspaper coverage from across the country, television reports, trade publications, declassified government documents and others -- and sets them against narratives of American decline which were common in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It shows that the oil crisis was excluded from this narrative as media and government officials continually dismissed the threat that it posed. Despite this, policymakers responded quickly and drastically, authorising the oil company Alyseka to drill the Alaskan wilderness in a matter of a few days. This essay offers a distinctive portrait of a confused public and a frustrated policymaking elite struggling with America's changing place and role in the world in a time when 'nothing any longer was the same, no rules held.'
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENERGY shortages; ENERGY policy; GAS shortages; ENERGY security; ORGANIZATION of Petroleum Exporting Countries; MIDDLE East-United States relations; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Australasian Journal of American Studies, 2014, Vol 33, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1838-9554
- Publication type
Essay