Understanding oil is essential for understanding modern history. The 20th century has rightly been called the century of oil, and the beginning of the 21st century suggests that this strategic commodity still gains in importance. From its creation in 1907 Royal Dutch Shell has played a key role in the global oil industry. For most of the 20th century Royal Dutch Shell was either the largest or, after Standard Oil/Exxon, the second largest oil company. This History of Royal Dutch Shell comes in three parts. Volume One by Joost Jonker and Jan Luiten van Zanden covers the development of Royal Dutch Shell from the foundation of the two main constituting companies until the outbreak of the Second World War. Volume Two by Stephen Howarth and Joost Jonker takes the story from the outbreak of the Second World War to the first oil crisis in 1973. Volume Three by Keetie Sluyterman highlights how Shell faced up to the nationalizations in the oil industry in the 1970s, and how high oil prices cushioned the required changes. The story then moves on to the second challenging period, after the collapse of oil prices in 1986. It explores how the company responded to innovation in information technologies, and the return of globalization and privatization in the 1990s, with a major organizational overhaul. This book lastly discusses how in the early 21st century high oil prices, nationalizations and alarms about oil scarcity resurfaced, and the two parent companies were finally unified. Volume Four contains appendices and a cumulative index. Based on unrestricted access to Royal Dutch Shell records, these books give a unique insight into the exciting world of oil and the tireless efforts to ascertain energy supplies for future generations. Lavishly illustrated and produced, the book is being published to coincide with the company's centenary in 2007.

The History of Royal Dutch Shell: Four-Volume Set

Business & Money

Van Zanden, Jan Luiten

HOWARTH, Stephen

Jonker, Joost

Sluyterman, Keetie

Economics

Oxford University Press

Morning glory: A history of the Imperial Japanese Navy

History

Asia

H.Hamilton

224pp. Heavily illustrated with color &amp; b/w photographs &amp; paintings. The 150 year history of the P&amp;O shipping line that ran from Gibraltar to India &amp; Far East, critical in both World Wars. DJ in Mylar, 1986, 8 by 11".

The Story of P and O: The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

HOWARTH, David

Industries

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1989

World

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Oil changed the 20th century: to mark Shell Transport &amp; Trading's centenary, a book based on unrestricted access to Shell's archives.

A Century in Oil: The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company 1897-1997

Biographies & Memoirs

For more than 150 years P&amp;O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&amp;O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&amp;O's famous white ships remains an important part of the company's activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests. This is the history of the company and its operations.

The Story of P&O: the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

MAYLE, PETER

Orion Publishing Co

For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&O's famous white ships remains an important part of the company's activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests. This is the history of the company and its operations.

The Story of P & O

August '39: the last four weeks of peace in Europe

Hodder&Stoughton

Traces the development of American sea power from the early days of the U.S. Navy to the Persian Gulf crisis, offering recreations of memorable sea battles and studies of technical advances, campaigns, and personalities

To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991

Americas

Random House]

Directs its focus to the healthy parturient and provides practical advice based on objective rather than empiric information...organized according to pre-, peri-, and postoperative care.

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