The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (660 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671502484 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 912 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. . Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War
The Age of Oil K. H. This is the definitive book on the "Age of Oil" and its journey from fruition to modern day. Incredibly well researched and insightful. The Prize describes how this once seemingly useless substance served as a platform for building global economies and increas. B. Hoglund said Excellent book covering oil's history and it's unprecedented influence on Global Affairs for over 100 years. If you want to know oil's history and story, and why it remains a dominant feature of humans' existence for the last 100 years, this is the book for you. Along with oil's story, you will learn the how and why driver of many of the historical events of the last. "Great perspective relating control of a resource with human behavior and survival of nations" according to John Rumpf. This is basically a history of the use of oil from its earliest mass production days in the mid 1800's up to today. This could be a dry topic but is written mainly as a series of narratives about the characters in the search of, production of, and control of t
Beginning with the first oil well of the 1850s and continuing up to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, it is a story of greed, gumption nad ingenuity, all in pursuit of "the prize" - worldwide economic, military and political mastery through the control of oil. The central strategic role of oil in both world wars - from the decisive 4-knot-per-hour advantage of oil-burning ships in World War I to Rommel's stalled tank advance at El Alamein in War II (he literally ran out of petrol) The underground battle to wind the greatest prize of all - the Saudi oil concession. Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book bring