Concrete Colonialism Kenneth Parker and Western oil execs to

and Western oil execs to tell the parallel stories of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the resilience of Iraqi society

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Concrete Colonialism Kenneth Parker and Western oil execs toDuring US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism, Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a project that sought