A Century in Oil

Stephen Howarth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

1997
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated (Verlag)
978-0-297-82247-9 (ISBN)

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Based on Shell's archives, this is a commemorative volume designed to celebrate and examine 100 years of the company's history. Formed at the end of the 19th century, Shell challenged the overwhelming might of Rockefeller's Standard Oil by supplying the Far East via the Suez Canal.

Background - 1853-91; origins - 1892-98; too far, too fast - 1899-1906; two into one - 1907-14; the Great War - 1914-18; a vast and world-wide scale - 1919-25; roaring along - 1925-29; surviving the flood - 1930-1934; on the roller-coaster - 1935-39; fuelling democracy - 1939-45; the fight to recover - 1946-51; all the world's a stage - 1952-6; Suez and after - 1957-62; an operation without parallel - 1963-7; the end of the buyer's market - 1967-72; cataclysm - 1973-7; slings and arrows - 1978-82; exit OPEC - 1983-7; deeper and still deeper - 1988-92; the changing shape of Shell - 1993-7.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.10.1997
Zusatzinfo	200 colour illustrat
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	202 x 270 mm
Gewicht	1589 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-297-82247-0 / 0297822470
ISBN-13	978-0-297-82247-9 / 9780297822479
Zustand	Neuware