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Title: The prize : the epic quest for oil, money, and power / Daniel Yergin.
Author: Yergin, Daniel. author.
General Notes: "A Touchstone book.", "A Touchstone book."

Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Publication Place: New York :
ISBN: 0671502484
9780671502485
0671799320
9780671799328
Subject: Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Military aspects -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
World politics -- 20th century.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
Politique mondiale -- 20e siecle.
Petrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Aspect politique -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Petrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Aspect militaire -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Military aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects.
War -- Causes.
World politics.
Olie-industrie.
Aardolie.
Handel.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
Petroleum industry -- History.
World politics.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Military aspects -- History -- 20th century.
World War I -- etiology.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
History.
Petroleum Production History
Contents: Founders -- Global struggle -- War and strategy -- Hydrocarbon age -- Battle for world mastery.
Part I: The Founders -- Oil on the brain: the beginning -- "Our plan": John D. Rockefeller and the combination of American oil -- Copetitive commerce -- The new century -- The dragon stain -- The oil wars: the rise of Royal Dutch, the fall of imperial Russia -- "Beer and skittles" in Persia -- The fateful plunge -- Part II: The Global struggle -- The blood of victory: World War I -- Opening the door on the Middle East: the Turkish Petroleum Company -- From shortage to surplus: the age of gasoline -- "The fight for new production" -- The flood -- "Friends" -- and enemies -- The Arabian concessions: the world that Frank Holmes made -- Part III: War and strategy -- Japan's road to war -- Germany's formula for war -- Japan's Achilles' heel -- The Allies' war -- Part IV: The Hydrocarbon age -- The new center of gravity -- The postwar petroleum order -- Fifty-fifty: the new deal in oil -- "Old Mossy" and the struggle for Iran -- The Suez crisis -- The elephants -- OPEC and the surge pot -- Hydrocarbon man -- Part V: The Battle for world mastery -- The hinge years: countries versus companies -- The oil weapon -- "Bidding for our life" -- OPEC's imperium -- The adjestment -- The second shock: the great panic -- "We're going down" -- Just another commodity? -- The good sweating: how low can it go?

Physical Description: 877, xxxii pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ;

Electronic Location: http://www.gbv.de/dms/hbz/toc/ht003857361.PDF
http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/16032-1/Daniel+Yergin.aspx

Publication Date: 1991.

	Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Barcode:	Media Type:
	Yarmouk	General	HD9560.6 .Y47 1991	Normal Circulation	Available	YU577623	Book