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