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The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and United States East Asian Policy, 1933-1941
By (Author) Irvine H. Anderson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Economic systems and structures
338.7665509598
Hardback
274
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
Oil was a basic source of conflict between the United States and Japan. This book examines the role played by the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company in the crisis that led to Pearl Harbor. "Stanvac" was the largest American supplier of oil to Japan and represented the single largest American direct investment in Asia before the war. In the context of Stan