King Energy: The Rise and Fall of an Industrial Empire Gone Awry - Softcover

Raphael, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059500427X ISBN 13: 9780595004270

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

The modern energy industry grew out of the rubble of the Middle Ages and the American Civil War. It quickly grew into a bewildering assemblage not only of mines, fields, pipelines, utilities and their overlapping directorates but of public and private policies and intrigues throughout the world, one broad enough in scale to rival the most powerful democracies in determining the ultimate fates of nations. Its priorities set the stage for the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. If the industrys rise to power was unexpected by the traditional establishments of nation and state, its crash was equally breathtaking, involving actors and players in unexpected locales and venues, from backyard inventors to the concrete canyons of Wall Street. King Energy is the story of the companies and personalities that defined the 20th Century and set the stage for the economic, political and social agendas leading up to the new millennium.

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• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059500427X
• ISBN 13: 9780595004270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 728