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Book TitlePrize : the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
Number of Pages928 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, World / General, Military / World War I, General, Industries / Energy, Petroleum
Publication Year1993
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
AuthorDaniel Yergin
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Intended AudienceTrade
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Dewey Edition21
ReviewsThe Boston Sunday GlobePure narrative history, spun out as a tremendously exciting epic covering nearly six generations., James Schlesingerformer U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of EnergyA masterly narrative...The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies., San Francisco ExaminerImpassioned and riveting...only in the great epics of Homer will readers regularly run into a comparable string of larger-than-life swashbucklers and statesmen, heroes and villains.
Dewey Decimal338.2/7/282/0904
Table Of ContentContents List of MapProloguePART I THE FOUNDERSChapter 1 Oil on the Brain: The BeginningChapter 2 "Our Plan": John D. Rockefeller and the Combination of American OilChapter 3 Competitive CommerceChapter 4 The New CenturyChapter 5 The Dragon SlainChapter 6 The Oil Wars: The Rise of Royal Dutch, the Fall of Imperial RussiaChapter 7 "Beer and Skittles" in PersiaChapter 8 The Fateful PlungePART II THE GLOBAL STRUGGLEChapter 9 The Blood of Victory: World War IChapter 10 Opening the Door on the Middle East: The Turkish Petroleum CompanyChapter II From Shortage to Surplus: The Age of GasolineChapter 12 "The Fight for New Production"Chapter 13 The FloodChapter 14 "Friends" -- and EnemiesChapter 15 The Arabian Concessions: The World That Frank Holmes MadePART III WAR AND STRATEGYChapter 16 Japan's Road to WarChapter 17 Germany's Formula for WarChapter 18 Japan's Achilles' HeelChapter 19 The Allies' WarPART IV THE HYDROCARBON AGEChapter 20 The New Center of GravityChapter 21 The Postwar Petroleum OrderChapter 22 Fifty-Fifty: The New Deal in OilChapter 23 "Old Mossy" and the Struggle for IranChapter 24 The Suez CrisisChapter 25 The ElephantsChapter 26 OPEC and the Surge PotChapter 27 Hydrocarbon ManPART V THE BATTLE FOR WORLD MASTERYChapter 28 The Hinge Years: Countries Versus CompaniesChapter 29 The Oil WeaponChapter 30 "Bidding for Our Life"Chapter 31 OPEC's ImperiumChapter 32 The AdjustmentChapter 33 ,The Second Shock: The Great PanicChapter 34 "We're Going Down"Chapter 35 Just Another Commodity?Chapter 36 The Good Sweating: How Low Can It Go?EpilogueChronologyOil Prices and ProductionNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsPhoto CreditsIndex
SynopsisHailed by The New York Times as a book that must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history, Yergin's bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winner has been made into an exciting 8-part miniseries to air on PBS in January 1993. 32 pages of photos., Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS SeriesThe Prizerecounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations.The Prizeis as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century,The Prizeis a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
LC Classification NumberHD9490