Hannah Appel uses this case study of U.S. oil industry in Equatorial Guinea to illustrate how inequality makes markets, not just in West Africa but globally.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. The Offshore  37
2. The Enclave  79
3. The Contract  137
4. The Subcontract  172
5. The Economy  204
6. The Political  247
Afterword  279
Notes  285
References  295
Index  317

Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of The Promise of Infrastructure, also published by Duke University Press, and Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.