Max Thornburg

Max Weston Thornburg was a former petroleum advisor the United States Department of State and a senior oil executive for the Standard Oil of California (Caltex) in the Middle East including Bahrain and Iran.

In the 1930s, the ruler of Bahrain gave the island of Umm as Sabaan as a gift to Thornburg.

References

• Linda Wills Qaimmaqami (1995), "The Catalyst of Nationalization: Max Thornburg and the Failure of Private Sector Developmentalism in Iran, 1947 - 1951", Diplomatic History, vol.19, no.1, pp.1-31
• Petroleum Advisor Max W Thornburg talks with Henry Hazlitt and William Bradford Huie in Longines Chronoscope, July 9, 1951
• Islands And Maritime Boundaries Of The Gulf 1798–1960, Archive Editions

• People and Policy in the Middle East. By Max Weston Thornburg. (With an introduction by Edward S. Mason). (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1964. Pp. xvii, 247.

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