The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power - Brossura

Yergin, Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0671799320 ISBN 13: 9780671799328

Casa editrice: Free Pr, 1993

Riassunto

Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series

The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.

The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.

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L'autore:

Daniel Yergin is an authority on world affairs and the oil business. He is President of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a leading international energy consulting firm. He was previously a lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard. He coauthored the bestseller Energy Future, and his prize-winning book Shattered Peace has become a classic history on the origins of the Cold War. The Prize also won the 1992 Eccles Prize.

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Book by Yergin Daniel

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Free Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0671799320
• ISBN 13: 9780671799328
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 881