Download or read book British Oil Policy 1919-1939 written by B S McBeth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ths book examines the efforts made by the British government of the period to lessen its dependence on American oil supplies, the emergence of Venezuela as the largest single British oil supplier in the early 1930s, and the changing structure of the oil industry both in the US and Europe. It draws almost entirely on primary sources.