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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Yergin, Daniel
by Yergin, Daniel | PB | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 2 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0671799320
- Book Title
- Prize : the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Military / World War II, World / General, Military / World War I, General, Industries / Energy, Petroleum
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 41.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 928 Pages
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Product Information
Hailed 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.
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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0671799320
ISBN-13
9780671799328
eBay Product ID (ePID)
142716
Product Key Features
Book Title
Prize : the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, World / General, Military / World War I, General, Industries / Energy, Petroleum
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
928 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
41.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd9490
Reviews
The 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.
Table of Content
Contents 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
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
338.2/7/282/0904
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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