Название: The prize: the epic quest for oil, money and power
Автор: Daniel Yergin
Год: 2008
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Страниц: 928
ISBN: 1-4391-1012-3
Формат: rtf epub
Размер: 13,1 Mb
Качество: хорошее
Язык: английский
Deemed «the best history of oil ever written» by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.Название: The prize: the epic quest for oil, money and power
Автор: Daniel Yergin
Год: 2008
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Страниц: 928
ISBN: 1-4391-1012-3
Формат: rtf epub
Размер: 13,1 Mb
Качество: хорошее
Язык: английский
Deemed «the best history of oil ever written» by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.
List of Maps
Prologue
PART I: THE FOUNDERS
Chapter 1: Oil on the Brain: The Beginning
Chapter 2: “Our Plan”: John D. Rockefeller and the Combination of American Oil
Chapter 3: Competitive Commerce
Chapter 4: The New Century
Chapter 5: The Dragon Slain
Chapter 6: The Oil Wars: The Rise of Royal Dutch, the Fall of Imperial Russia
Chapter 7: “Beer and Skittles” in Persia
Chapter 8: The Fateful Plunge
PART II: THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE
Chapter 9: The Blood of Victory: World War I
Chapter 10: Opening the Door on the Middle East: The Turkish Petroleum Company
Chapter 11: From Shortage to Surplus: The Age of Gasoline
Chapter 12: “The Fight for New Production”
Chapter 13: The Flood
Chapter 14: “Friends”—and Enemies
Chapter 15: The Arabian Concessions: The World That Frank Holmes Made
PART III: WAR AND STRATEGY
Chapter 16: Japan’s Road to War
Chapter 17: Germany’s Formula for War
Chapter 18: Japan’s Achilles’ Heel
Chapter 19: The Allies’ War
PART IV: THE HYDROCARBON AGE
Chapter 20: The New Center of Gravity
Chapter 21: The Postwar Petroleum Order
Chapter 22: Fifty-Fifty: The New Deal in Oil
Chapter 23: “Old Mossy” and the Struggle for Iran
Chapter 24: The Suez Crisis
Chapter 25: The Elephants
Chapter 26: OPEC and the Surge Pot
Chapter 27: Hydrocarbon Man
PART V: THE BATTLE FOR WORLD MASTERY
Chapter 28: The Hinge Years: Countries Versus Companies
Chapter 29: The Oil Weapon
Chapter 30: “Bidding for Our Life”
Chapter 31: OPEC’s Imperium
Chapter 32: The Adjustment
Chapter 33: The Second Shock: The Great Panic
Chapter 34: “We’re Going Down”
Chapter 35: Just Another Commodity?
Chapter 36: The Good Sweating: How Low Can It Go?
Chapter 37: Crisis in the Gulf
Epilogue
Chronology
Oil Prices and Production
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Index