The Prize

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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.

出版者:Free Press
作者:Daniel Yergin
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页数:928
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出版时间:2008-12-23
价格:USD 22.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9781439110126
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  • 能源 
  • 石油 
  • 历史 
  • 经济学 
  • 经济 
  • 美国 
  • Energy&Environment 
  • geopolitics 
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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

具体描述

读后感

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《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...  

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对于数字不敏感的我来说,这本书真是考验。好几次被弄的晕头转向。看到这么多例子和数字。我到最后几乎是怀着敬畏的心情看完的。  

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好厚的一本书啊。 只好先挑和目前情况有关的看。所以,首先关注的是战后中东石油资源的划分。刚把伊朗石油国有化那段故事看完。 不好意思,才写了这么点。  

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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...  

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石油,对于现在的每个人来说相信都不陌生。我们现在的衣食住行等各个方面基本上都有着石油的踪迹,石油可以用来作为燃料,润滑油,有机化工方面的重要溶溶剂等等。而围绕石油国内民众最为关心的一个话题就是汽油的价格,前两年国际石油的价格可谓是一直是断崖式的下降...

用户评价

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我读的版本止于第一次海湾战争,围绕石油的全球博弈写的非常精彩

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Daniel Yergin的石油三部曲之一。

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人类近代能源社会史。大概像教科书一样回顾了之前几个世纪里以能源为动机和推动力引发的全球地缘政治和社会变化。格局和框架很大。作者Daniel Yergin现在在某家能源智库/咨询公司工作,去年还撰写了新的能源未来展望报告。有兴趣可以搜搜。

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我读的版本止于第一次海湾战争,围绕石油的全球博弈写的非常精彩

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The long, rewarding, intriguing and sometimes torturing read that left me with absolutely no fucking idea of how oil works after all.

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