Perhaps I'll read it during the post-petroapokalypse, as a bit of irony. " This book is engrossing, but so goddamn long and minute in detail, I don't know how I'm going to finish it. Basically the history of the world since the discovery of oil. Good read, but prepare to spend some quality time. Lots of history gets a completely new twist when viewed from the energy perspective, and lots of what goes on today makes a bit more sense with the information from this book as background. " A readable, but dense, history of oil since its discovery in the 19th century in Pennsylvania. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.
I have an overall sense of some really perceptive scholarship and a number of revelations from this book on how international trade and economy have worked and the writing itself was not difficult to get involved in - rather than the dryness one might expect from a book with such great historical detail on one particular trade item, it was engagingly and interestingly written." I had some friends who used to divide the readings among themselves and then tell each other what they had read - in retrospect I wish I had participated just because of the sheer amount of reading it was. It was part of my International Political Econ class in college which was a great class, but yikes on the amount of reading, so I ended up pulling out points here and there for our weekly summaries in order to move on to the other assigned readings. "I'm marking this as read, but I really only skimmed it and that was years ago (1999 I think) so at this point it's on my must-read-it-again list. Deemed “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, this is Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power.
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