出版社: Simon & Schuster
出版年: 1993-01-01
ISBN: 9780671799328
页数: 928 页
装帧: Paperback
定价: USD 22.00
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, , winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil....
Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, , winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.
Energy consultant Yergin limns oil's central role in most of the wars and many international crises of the 20th century. "A timely, information-packed, authoritative history of the petroleum industry, tracing its ramifications, national and geopolitical, to the present day," said PW. Photos. Author tour.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This book does not require recent events in the Persian Gulf to make it an essential addition for most public libraries as well as all college libraries. Written by one of the foremost U.S. authorities on energy, it is a major work in the field, replete with enough insight to satisfy the scholar and sufficient concern with the drama and colorful personalities in the history of oil to capture the interest of the general public. Though lengthy, the book never drags in developing its themes: the relationship of oil to the rise of modern capitalism; the intertwining relations between oil, politics, and international power; and the relationship between oil and society in what Yergin calls today's age of "Hydrocarbon Man." Parts of the story have been told as authoritatively before, e.g., in Irvine Anderson's Aramco: The United States and Saudi Arabia ( LJ 7/81), but never in as comprehensive a fashion as here.
- Joseph R. Rudolph Jr., Towson State Univ., Md.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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.
A compelling and comprehensive history. . . . [Yergin] writes quiet unexaggerated prose, comprehensible to non-specialists, and artfully manages vast research . . . his narrative proceeds like a developing photograph of our times.
Splendid and epic...brilliantly told.
James Schlesinger
former U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of Energy
A masterly narrative...The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies.
The Boston Sunday Globe
Pure narrative history, spun out as a tremendously exciting epic covering nearly six generations.
San Francisco Examiner
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.
The Wall Street Journal
Splendid and epic...brilliantly told.
The Wall Street Journal Splendid and epic...brilliantly told.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
丹尼尔•耶金不论是在国际问题或是石油产业的研究上,都是当今全球顶级的权威专家。他是美国剑桥能源研究会主席、美国政府思想库布鲁金斯学会理事会成员、外交关系委员会研究委员会成员等诸多职位在身的美国重要影响人物之一。曾因其经典作品《奖赏》荣获普利策大奖,除此之外,他还写过两部著作——《粉碎的和平》与《能源的未来:哈佛商业学院能源项目报告》,前者成为探讨冷战起源的经典巨著,而后者在欧美、日本也都广受欢迎。
The Prize的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 23 条 )
书评|《奖赏》:交织激情与权谋的石油史诗!
石油是自然给人类的奖赏,也带给人类无尽的灾难
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题目是我理解的书名,无数人靠石油发了财,无数人也因石油失去一切。看这本书的初衷,是2020年初因新冠疫情影响,石油需求剧减导致原油价格短期触及-40美金/桶,出乎所有人意料,同时出现了中行原油宝事件,想了解下石油的历史;以及猜想下一个能源支柱产品是什么,能源产品的... (展开)一部石油工业宏观史诗作品
围绕着无辜石油的斗争
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