The prize: the epic quest for oil, money, and power /
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money y Power by Daniel Yergin: It was worth all 877 pages. I have yet to find so comprehensive a book that explores the ever so complicated world as that spun around Oil. I found myself unable to put it down. According to Daniel Yergin, ?Petroleum remains the moti...
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| Format: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | Spanish English |
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New York:
Touchstone,
1993.
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| Izdanje: | First edition. |
| Serija: | PBS Series
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| Sažetak: | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money y Power by Daniel Yergin: It was worth all 877 pages. I have yet to find so comprehensive a book that explores the ever so complicated world as that spun around Oil. I found myself unable to put it down. According to Daniel Yergin, ?Petroleum remains the motive force of industrial society and the lifeblood of the civilization that it helped to create.? In an effort to drive his point home, Yergin sounds as if everything revolved around Oil. Judging from the extensive research he did one would almost think it did (or does). Yergin might be accused of totalizing the issue but I do not think he does that or even means to do it here. He certainly does not other elements/forces that motivate man and in fact even incorporates them. However, his thesis and interest is Oil and for that, he won a much-deserved Pulitzer Prize. According to Yergin, the prime motive of the early American oilmen was greed. He writes that their merciless methods and unbridled lust nevertheless turned an agrarian republic . . . into the world?s greatest industrial power. Yergin is evenhanded about the motives, interests, rights, and pride of the Latin Americans, Arabs, and Persians who have had the questionable luck of sitting on most of the oil and who have long been dealing with the British, the Dutch, and the Americans who want to market and control it. Oil defines the 20th century. This is a huge claim, which Yergin makes. The Prize undeniably is worth buying, having, and discussing. The book is extensive and heavily researched and chronicles the development of the Oil industry from its inception to the development of OPEC and the eventual price stabilization of the 1980s. Yergin also deftly articulates the development of the usual suspects: Standard Oil, Shell, Gulf, Royal Dutch, etc. Moreover, he goes into extensive detail about wild-catters and independents. We are introduced to several enigmatic individuals ranging from John D. Rockefeller to William F. Buckley, Sr., and Armand Hammer. We are transported to the yacht of Sheik Yamani and to the home of a young Col. Qaddafi. We are there are those responsible are setting the stage for the rise of OPEC and we experience how the member states navigate through their various issues and agendas. I was especially intrigued by the treatment of Mossadegh, the Shah Reza Pahlevi, and Saddam Hussein. Yergin examines how important oil is, nor is he surprised when deceitfulness and brutality are used against those who will not play ball, as in Iran to bring Mossadegh down, or in Kuwait to get Saddam out. Yergin?s realism makes explicit that not only the West and Japan, but also those close to him, could never have afforded to trust Saddam with his Oil reserves. |
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| Opis fizičkog objekta: | xxii; 885 páginas: fot 23 cm |
| Bibliografija: | incl. bib. incl. ind. |
| ISBN: | 0-671-79932-0 |