The prize: the epic quest for oil, money and power

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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.

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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