Contenidos:
Prologue, 11 -- Part I. The founders, 17 -- Chapter 1. Oil on the Brain: The Beginning, 19 -- Chapter 2. "Our Plan": John D. Rockefeller and the Combination of American Oil, 35 -- Chapter 3. Competitive Commerce, 56 -- Chapter 4. The New Century, 78 -- Chapter 5. The Dragon Slain, 96 -- Chapter 6. The Oil Wars: The Rise of Royal Dutch, the Fall of Imperial Russia, 114 -- Chapter 7. "Beer and Skittles" in Persia, 134 -- Chapter 8. The Fateful Plunge, 150 -- Part II. The global struggle, 165 -- Chapter 9. The Blood of Victory: World War I, 167 -- Chapter 10. Opening the Door on the Middle East: The Turkish Petroleum Company, 184 -- Chapter 11. From Shortage to Surplus: The Age of Gasoline, 207 -- Chapter 12. "The Fight for New Production", 229 -- Chapter 13. The Flood, 244 -- Chapter 14. "Friends"-and Enemies, 260 -- Chapter 15. The Arabian Concessions: The World That Frank Holmes Made, 280 -- Part III. War and strategy, 303 -- Chapter 16. Japan's Road to War, 305 -- Chapter 17. Germany's Formula for War, 328 -- Chapter 18. Japan's Achilles' Heel, 351 -- Chapter 19. The Allies' War, 368 -- Part IV. The hydrocarbon age, 389 -- Chapter 20. The New Center of Gravity, 391 -- Chapter 21. The Postwar Petroleum Order, 409 -- Chapter 22. Fifty-Fifty: The New Deal in Oil, 431 -- Chapter 23. "Old Mossy" and the Struggle for Iran, 450 -- Chapter 24. The Suez Crisis, 479 -- Chapter 25. The Elephants, 499 -- Chapter 26. OPEC and the Surge Pot, 519 -- Chapter 27. Hydrocarbon Man, 541 -- Part V. The battle for world mastery, 561 -- Chapter 28. The Hinge Years: Countries Versus Companies, 563 -- Chapter 29. The Oil Weapon, 588 -- Chapter 30. "Bidding for Our Life", 613 -- Chapter 31. OPEC's Imperium, 633 -- Chapter 32. The Adjustment, 653 -- Chapter 33. The Second Shock: The Great Panic, 674 -- Chapter 34. "We're Going Down", 699 -- Chapter 35. Just Another Commodity?, 715 -- Chapter 36. The Good Sweating: How Low Can It Go?, 745 -- Epilogue, 769 -- Chronology, 789 -- Oil Prices and Production, 792 -- Notes, 795 -- Bibliography, 856 -- Acknowledgments, 882 -- Photo Credits, 885 -- Index, 887.
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