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PART Ⅰ THE FOUNDERS 1

Chapter 1 Oil on the Brain: The Beginning 3

Chapter 2 “Our Plan”: John D.Rockefeller and the Combination of American Oil 19

Chapter 3 Competitive Commerce 40

Chapter 4 The New Century 62

Chapter 5 The Dragon Slain 80

Chapter 6 The Oil Wars:The Rise of Royal Dutch, the Fall of Imperial Russia 98

Chapter 7 “Beer and Skittles” in Persia 118

Chapter 8 The Fateful Plunge 134

PART Ⅱ THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE 149

Chapter 9 The Blood of Victory: World War I 151

Chapter 10 Opening the Door on the Middle East:The Turkish Petroleum Company 168

Chapter 11 From Shortage to Surplus: The Age of Gasoline 190

Chapter 12 “The Fight for New Production” 212

Chapter 13 The Flood 227

Chapter 14 “Friends”—and Enemies 243

Chapter 15 The Arabian Concessions:The World That Frank Holmes Made 263

PART Ⅲ WAR AND STRATEGY 287

Chapter 16 Japan's Road to War 289

Chapter 17 Germany's Formula for War 311

Chapter 18 Japan's Achilles' Heel 333

Chapter 19 The Allies' War 350

PART Ⅳ THE HYDROCARBON AGE 371

Chapter 20 The New Center of Gravity 373

Chapter 21 The Postwar Petroleum Order 391

Chapter 22 Fifty-Fifty: The New Deal in Oil 413

Chapter 23 “Old Mossy” and the Struggle for Iran 432

Chapter 24 The Suez Crisis 461

Chapter 25 The Elephants 481

Chapter 26 OPEC and the Surge Pot 501

Chapter 27 Hydrocarbon Man 523

PART Ⅴ THE BATTLE FOR WORLD MASTERY 543

Chapter 28 The Hinge Years: Countries Versus Companies 545

Chapter 29 The Oil Weapon 570

Chapter 30 “Bidding for Our Life” 595

Chapter 31 OPEC's Imperium 615

Chapter 32 The Adjustment 635

Chapter 33 The Second Shock: The Great Panic 658

Chapter 34 “We're Going Down” 681

Chapter 35 Just Another Commodity? 697

Chapter 36 The Good Sweating: How Low Can It Go? 726

Chapter 37 Crisis in the Gulf 750

Epilogue: The New Age of Oil 763

Chronology 775

Oil Prices and Production 778

Notes 781

Bibliography 841

Acknowledgments 867

Photo Credits 873

Index 875