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James Marriott and Terry Macalister: Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation Blank Forms Joe HightonPluto Press, 2021, hardcover, 448 pages, 15 x 23. 1 cm Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's oil soaked past, present and future. Travelling the country, the authors discover how the financial power and political muscle of an industry built the culture of a nation from pop music to kitchen appliances, and how companies constructed an empire,