Oil & Energy, United States, World, Petroleum, International & World Politics 

Now with a new epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, the prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resources: oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decade’s ant that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy; and transform the destiny of men and nation. This update edition categorically proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first by tracing economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.”
With his far reaching insight and in depth research, Yergin is uniquely positioned to address the present battle over energy, which undoubtedly ranks as one of the most vital issues of our time. The canvas of his narrative history is enormous-from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,. Operation Desert Storm, and now both the Iraq war and climate change. The definitive work on the subject of oil. The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement and great value – crucial to our understanding of world politics and the economy today- and tomorrow.
 

Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis. - from Amzon 

List of Map Prologue
Part I The Founders
Chapter 1. Oil on the Brain: The Beginning…………………………………………..P 1
Chapter 2. Our Plan"" John D. Rockefeller and the Combination
of American Oil……………………………………………………………………………………..…P 3
Chapter 3. Competitive Commerce……………………………………………………….P 19
Chapter 4. The New Century…………………………………………………………………P 40
Chapter 5. The Dragon Slain…………………………………………………………………p 62
Chapter 6.The Oil Wars: The Rise of Royal Dutch, the Fall of
Imperial Russia……………………………………………………………………………………….p 80
Chapter 7.Beer and Skittles"" in Persia…………………………………………………p 98
Chapter 8. The Fateful Plunge………………………………………………………………p 118
Part II The Global Struggle……………………………………………………...........….p 149
Chapter 9.The Blood of Victory: World War I………………………………………p 151
Chapter 10.Opening the Door on the Middle East: The Turkish
petroleum Company………………………………………………………………………………p 168
Chapter 11. From Shortage to Surplus: The Age of Gasoline…………….p 190
Chapter 12. “The Fight for New Production”……………………………………….p 212
Chapter 13. The Flood………………………………………………………………………….p 227
Chapter 14. “Friends”- and Enemies…………………………………………………….p 243
Chapter 15. The Arabian Concessions: The world That Frank Holmes Made…………………………………………….…………………………………………………….....p 263
Chapter 16. Japan’s Road to War………………………………………………………...p 287
Chapter 17. Germany’s Formula for War……………………………………………….p 311
Chapter 18. Japan’s Achilles Heel…………………………………………………………..p 333
Chapter 19. The Allies War……………………………………………………………………..p 350
PART IV THE HYDROCARBON AGE………………………………………………………P 371
Chapter 20. The New Center of Gravity……………………………………………….…p 373
Chapter 21. The postwar petroleum Order…………………………………………....p 391
Chapter 22. Fifty-fifty: The New Deal in Oil……………………………………………p 413
Chapter 23. “Oil Mossy” and the Struggle for Iran…………………………………p 432
Chapter 24. The Suez Crisis………………………………………………………………….…p 461
Chapter 25. The Elephants……………………………………………………………………..p 481
Chapter 26. OPEC and Surge Pot……………………………………………………………p 501
Chapter 27. Hydrocarbon Man……………………………………………………………….p 523
PART V THE BATTLE FOR WORLD MASTERY………………………………………….P 543
Chapter 28. The Hinge Years: Countries Versus Companies………………..p 545
Chapter 29. The Oil Weapon………………………………………………………………….p 570
Chapter 30. “Bidding for Our Life”…………………………………………………………p 595
Chapter 31. OPEC’s Imperium……………………………………………………………….p 615
Chapter 32. The Adjustment……………………………………………………………….…p 635
Chapter 33. The Second Shock: the Great Panic……………………………….…p 658
Chapter 34. “ We’re Going Down”…………………………………………………………p 681
Chapter 35. Just another Commodity…………………………………………………..p 697
Chapter 36. The Good Sweating: How Low Can it Go?......................p 726
Chapter 37. Crisis in The Gulf……………………………………………………………….p 750
Chapter 38. The New age of Oil…………………………………………………………….p 763
Chronology……………………………………………………………………………………………..p 775
Oil Prize and Production………………………………………………………………………….p 778
Note…………………………………………………………………………………………………………p 781