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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and PowerQuelle: AmazonISBN: 0671799320 33,77 EUR
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Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.Bilder
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A Good History Book!
Datum:26.07.2000 - Rating: 5/5An excellent history of the oil industry. This book civers fron the first oil find until today. It well documents the impact that oil has had on the world in the past as well as today. The formation of some of the biggest industrial concerns in the history of the world a covered in this book as well. The author also explains the dominant role of the Middle East in the oil industry picture. This is a very informative and readable book even if it is long. This book is a good writing on a subject that is hard to write about. This book also does a good job describing the makeup and breakup of the Standard Oil Company. Be sure to read this book.
A book not about oil, but how oil changed mankind.
Datum:12.06.2000 - Rating: 5/5I am a chemical engineer in the oil industry and this book intrests me for obvious reason, but... This book is about the impact oil and mankind has had on each other. Oil has shaped the world economy and power structure in business and goverment since it was first drilled for in Penn. This book is more about the intrigue than technology. The goals of this book is to show how man hads become to depend on oil without knowing it. How oil has shaped history, warfare and peace. I have had several friends who are not engineers say that they have loved this book. No hard science background is needed. Yergin is weaves a story of people and their fasination and fixation to control the worlds supply of oil. THE PRIZE is the perfect title.
This book hits a gusher
Datum:22.05.2000 - Rating: 5/5While "The Prize" purports to be the history of oil, it could just as easily be in part a history of every major human undertaking of the last century or so. As Yergin stresses, little that has been achieved in the 20th century could have been achieved without it. Starting with the initial discoveries during the mid-nineteenth century and culminating with the Gulf War, this is a sweeping story in the mode of David McCullogh's "The Path Between the Seas." Yergin is a insightful and talented writer and the book reads like an adventure story. Along the way, he very much gives an important history subject its due.
Insight into the World of Oil
Datum:14.05.2000 - Rating: 5/5An excellent read. One of the most factual yet interesting books I have read in a long time. This book is a must not only for people interested in the Oil industry, but for anyone vaguely interested in politics, world economics or travel. It explains events from the beginnings of oil discoveries, the development & growth of the internal combustion engine through related issues of the second world war an the invasion of Kuwait. Read and enjoy
This is an excellent source about the history of oil.
Datum:01.05.2000 - Rating: 5/5Since I chose oil futures as a term paper topic for my graduate investment class, I really wanted to get a strong background on how oil became such a powerful commodity since it was discovered back in the 1800s. This book gives an in depth history from Standard Oil to OPEC. You see just how powerful oil is when it comes to politics, and you will understand why our gasoline prices were approaching $2.00 a gallon in March. Yergin truly deserved the Pulitzer Prize for his seven years of research. This book is excellent.
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