TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yergin Daniel
TI  -  The prize : the epic quest for oil, money, and power
SN  - 9781439110126
AV  - HD9560.6 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Free Press
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.”
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