Daniel Yerginin is an authority on energy and world affairs. Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and executive vice president of IHS, he is global energy expert for the CNBC business news network. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the Eccles Prize for The Prize, which has been translated into thirteen languages and was made into a much-acclaimed PBS/BBC series. His other books include Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, about globalization and its challenges, and Shattered Peace, a classic history on the origins of the Cold War.
Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives. 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 book includes the story of Shell Oil, a company forged in defiance of the Standard Oil monopoly by an upstart London trader, using Rothchild connections, Russian oil and Dutch petrolium concession in the East Indies. 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 win the greatest prize of all—the Saudi oil concession. The inside story of the discovery of North Sea Oil and its crucial role in undermining the OPEC monopoly.
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Comments
"Spellbinding...irresistible...monumental...must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history."-- The New York Times
"A masterly narrative...The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies."-- James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of Energy
"Splendid and epic history of oil.... The story is brilliantly told...with its remarkable cast of characters." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Impassioned 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."-- San Francisco Examiner
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Contents
List of Maps
List Of Illustrations
Prologue
Part I: The Founders
1 Oil on the Brain: The Beginning
2 "Our Plan": John D. Rockefeller and the Combination of American Oil
3 Competitive Commerce
4 The New Century
5 The Dragon Slain
6 The Oil Wars: The Rise of Royal Dutch, the Fall of Imperial Russia
7 "Beer and Skittles" in Persia
8 The Fateful Plunge
Part II: The Global Struggle
9 The Blood of Victory: World War I
10 Opening the Door on the Middle East: The Turkish Petroleum Company
11 From Shortage to Surplus: The Age of Gasoline
12 "The Fight for New Production"
13 The Flood
14 "Friends"—and Enemies
15 The Arabian Concessions: The World That Frank Holmes Made
Part III: War and Strategy
16 Japan's Road to War
17 Germany's Formula for War
18 Japan's Achilles' Heel
19 The Allies' War
Part IV: The Hydrocarbon Age
20 The New Center of Gravity
21 The Postwar Petroleum Order
22 Fifty-Fifty: The New Deal in Oil
23 "Old Mossy" and the Struggle for Iran
24 The Suez Crisis
25 The Elephants
26 OPEC and the Surge Pot
27 Hydrocarbon Man
Part V: The Battle For World Mastery
28 The Hinge Years: Countries Versus Companies
29 The Oil Weapon
30 "Bidding for Our Life"
31 OPEC's Imperium
32 The Adjustment
33 The Second Shock: The Great Panic
34 "We're Going Down"
35 Just Another Commodity?
36 The Good Sweating: How Low Can It Go?
Epilogue
Chronology
Oil Prices and Production
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Index
About the Author
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好厚的一本書啊。 隻好先挑和目前情況有關的看。所以,首先關注的是戰後中東石油資源的劃分。剛把伊朗石油國有化那段故事看完。 不好意思,纔寫瞭這麼點。
評分 評分《石油大博弈》(The Prize),丹尼爾·耶金著,中信齣版社,2008年9月第1版。 雖是獲普利策奬作品,但僅閤翻閱。材料很多,寫得也很具體。但看來總覺得暈頭脹腦的,還是不清楚。看著看著,也有《貨幣戰爭》的感覺。上下五韆年、縱橫八萬裏,所有的事情都以石油為主導,戰爭...
評分【權當讀書打卡,不算認真的書評】-2018.12.03首次編輯 題外話:購買這本書後的幾個月斷斷續續讀著,截止上上周末始終隻讀不到100頁,卻在過去一周時間裏差不讀一口氣讀完(過去一周ipad 屏幕使用時間0分鍾), 導緻我手不釋捲的原因是因為書中寫到瞭20世紀初的曆史尤其是一戰二...
圖書標籤: 能源 石油 曆史 經濟學 經濟 美國 Energy&Environment geopolitics
Masterpiece of oil history
評分900多頁的書,寫的不好是看不完的。強烈推薦。
評分A real page turner 真的是無法放手,就是有點厚.非常值得一讀
評分讀到100頁 為啥仍然覺得像流水賬啊啊啊啊啊! 已棄……NND 波瀾壯闊的確不好寫,但是你給一個主心骨啊!也沒有~ 還是流水流水流水~~~
評分靜心觀察一個行業百年的興衰,以國民經濟、國際關係、企業興衰、英雄個人的起伏窺伺行業本身的起承轉閤,看起來是一件非常old fashion的事情。故紙堆在大多數時候都無法帶給我們財富的金鑰匙,但縱觀本書的脈絡,看挖掘與地質勘探技術的提升帶來的可獲得性、可商用性如何助力石油成為最主流的能源形式,看市場化價格指數、金融衍生品與價格手段如何賦予作為大宗商品的石油在國際經濟領域的話語權(以及其與黃金、美元的此消彼長關係),看中東地緣政治,看包括opec在內的諸多價格協調機製在國內政治與地區經濟,而後到國際政治與國際經濟之間的“因果”,看七姊妹與洛剋菲勒等商界傳奇…對曆史的迴溯總還是能幫助我們尋找下一次能源結構升級的序麯與綫索,即使我們中的大多數平凡人永遠也不知道自己身處時代潮流的哪一段樂章。
The Prize 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載