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发表于2024-05-28
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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
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.
The long, rewarding, intriguing and sometimes torturing read that left me with absolutely no fucking idea of how oil works after all.
評分一部石油工業史也是一部當代政治經濟史!
評分Masterpiece of oil history
評分Masterpiece of oil history
評分900多頁的書,寫的不好是看不完的。強烈推薦。
原来是自己单位的人翻译的,看完以后看译者怎么觉得这么眼熟,后来一个个对,原来都是领导。。。 适合翻翻,大的框架都有,不要太精读。写到上世纪90年代,缺了阿富汗、伊拉克战争这一段。中国面临越来越多面临曾经困扰发达资本主义国家的问题,我个人觉得很难跳出原来的逻辑,...
評分石油,不仅是一种宝贵的自然资源,同时也是一种重要的战略物资,因而它具有经济和政治双重意义。在当今世界经济全球化和经济一体化程度不断加深的情况下,运用经济手段达成对外政策的目标表现得很明显,经济斗争特别是石油禁运成为解决国际矛盾的重要手段,阿拉伯国家运用石油...
評分《石油大博弈》(The Prize),丹尼尔·耶金著,中信出版社,2008年9月第1版。 虽是获普利策奖作品,但仅合翻阅。材料很多,写得也很具体。但看来总觉得晕头胀脑的,还是不清楚。看着看着,也有《货币战争》的感觉。上下五千年、纵横八万里,所有的事情都以石油为主导,战争...
評分翻译远不如上海译文那一版。阅读体验不佳。很多语句,不是中国人的语言习惯。中信这版本,不如译文那版《石油风云》感觉更贴近阅读习惯。 耶金本身作为专栏作家,是很会写故事的人,而此版译者削弱了阅读的乐趣。对照英文版来读,可能还比阅读此版本更加轻松。 中文版,更建议...
評分《石油大博弈》(The Prize),丹尼尔·耶金著,中信出版社,2008年9月第1版。 虽是获普利策奖作品,但仅合翻阅。材料很多,写得也很具体。但看来总觉得晕头胀脑的,还是不清楚。看着看着,也有《货币战争》的感觉。上下五千年、纵横八万里,所有的事情都以石油为主导,战争...
The Prize pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024