National and Regional Histories: Regulation, Law, Politics, and State Building

United States

American Bar Association, Section of Mineral Law. Legal History of Conservation of Oil and Gas: A Symposium. Chicago: American Bar Association, 1939

Bates, J. Leonard. The Origins of Teapot Dome: Progressives, Parties, and Petroleum, 1909-1921. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963.

_____. "The Teapot Dome Scandal and the Election of 1924." American Historical Review 55 (January 1955): 302-22.

Bradley, Robert L. Jr.  Oil, Gas and Government: The U.S. Experience, 2 Volumes. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1996.

Bringhurst, Bruce. Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly: The Standard Oil Cases, i8go-rgrr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.

Chamberlain, Kathleen. Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navaho Oil. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Childs, Bill. The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid Twentieth Century.  College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2005.

Clark, John G. Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900-1946 Urbana: Uni­versity of Illinois Press, 1987.
Eizenstat, Stuart E. "The 1977 Energy Plan: M.E.O.W." Case note for the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Engler, Robert. The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

______. The Politics of Oil: A Study of Private Power and Democratic Directions. New York: Mac­millan, 1961.

Erickson, Edward W. and Leonard Waverman, eds.  The Energy Question: An International Failure of Policy Vol. 2 North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.

Frey, John W., and H. Chandler Ide. A History of the Petroleum Administration for War, 1941-1945. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1946.

Goodwin, Craufurd D., ed. Energy Policy in Perspective: Today's Problems, Yesterday's Solutions. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1981.

Gorman, Hugh. Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001.

Ikenberry, G. John.  Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Ise, John. The United States Oil Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926.

Kaufman, Burton I. "Oil and Antitrust: The Oil Cartel Case and the Cold War." Business History Review 51 (Spring 1977): 35-56.

____. The Oil Cartel Case: A Documentary Study of Antitrust Activity in the Cold War Era. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.

Lear, Linda J. "Harold L. Ickes and the Oil Crisis of the First Hundred Days." Mid-America 63(January 1981): 3-17.

Levy, Walter J. Oil Strategy and Politics, 1941-1981. Ed. Melvin A. Conant. Boulder, Colo.: Westviea Press, 1982.

Maurer, John H. "Fuel and the Battle Fleet: Coal, Oil, and American Naval Strategy, 1898-1925." Naval War College Review 34 (November-December 1981): 60-77.

McCloy, John J., Nathan W. Pearson, and Beverly Matthews. The Great Oil Spill: The Inside Report-­Gulf Oil's Bribery and Political Chicanery. New York: Chelsea House, 1976.

Nash, Gerald D. United States Oil Policy, 1890-1964. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968.

Nivola, Pietro S. The Politics of Energy Conservation. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1986.

Noggle, Burl. Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920s. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962.

Nordhauser, Norman. The Quest for Stability: Domestic Oil Regulation, 1917-1935. New York: Garland, 1979.

Pratt, Joseph A. The Growth of a Refining Region. Greenwich, Conn.: Jai Press, 1980.

Pratt, Joseph A. "The Petroleum Industry in Transition: Anti-Trust and the Decline of Monopoly Control in Oil." Journal of Economic History 40 (December 1980): 815-37.

Prindle, David F. Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.

Rosenberg, David A. "The U.S. Navy and the Problem of Oil in a Future War: The Outline of a Strategic Dilemma, 1945-1950." Naval War College Review 29 (Summer 1976): 53-61.

Rostow, Eugene V. A National Policy for the Oil Industry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948.

Sabin, Paul. Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Shaffer, Edward H. The Oil Import Program of the United States. London: Praeger, 1968.

M. R., and John Star. The Teapot Dome Scandal. New York: Viking Press, 1959.

Stoff, Michael B. Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941-47. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.

Vietor, Richard H. K. Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Re­lations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Weaver, Jacqueline Lang. Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields in Texas: A Study of Legislative, Ad­ministrative, and Judicial Politics. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1986.

Yergin, Daniel, Joseph Stanislaw, and Dennis Eklof. "The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Margin of Security." Council on Foreign Relations Paper/Cambridge Energy Research Associates Report, 1990.