Part I: 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: 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: 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?
37. Crisis in the Gulf

The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for over a century and continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prize proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the modern era by capturing the great economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.”