A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

Title Page
About the Author
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1: Earth Oil
	The Middle East and Central Asia
	Africa
	Asia
	Europe
	Latin America and the Caribbean
	North America
2: Seneca Oil
	Drilling in Ohio Country
	Imperial Collision
	Imperial Overstretch
	Imperial Handover
	‘Trade of a Rising Empire’
	‘A Subdued People’
	Seneca Chief
	The $300,000 Question
3: Oildom
	Barrels of Oil
	Wartime Demand and Destruction
	The Cleveland Nexus
	From Pithole by Pipeline and Tank Car
	Fire, Flood, Boom and Bust
4: Corporate Control
	Battle for the Oil Trade
	Pipeline to Monopoly
	Benson’s Folly
	‘Corporations Derive their Powers from the People’
	The Standard Oil Trust
	Standard Oil, Producers and Independents
5: A Global Industry
	‘So Little Exploited by Man’
	Caucasian Battleground
	Reclaiming the Russian Market
	Across the Caucasus to the World
	International Competition
	Colonial Oil
	East and West of Suez
	‘The Battle for All Christendom’
	The Markets of the World
	‘Petroleum Craze at Baku’
	The Royal Dutch and the Shell
6: Oil for Power
	Oil Engines
	‘The Teeming Millions of the Middle Kingdom’
	An Industry in Flux
	‘Teeming Liquid Wealth’
	‘The Virgin Oil Fields of Persia’
	Liquid Fuel and Sea Power
	Petroleum Spirit
	‘The Destruction of the Communistic System’
7: A Volatile Mix
	The ‘Asphalt War’
	Revolution in Russia – A ‘Dress Rehearsal’
	Revolution in Persia, and the Plain of Oil
	British Supremacy over Baghdad
	Revolution in Mexico – ‘Police the Surrounding Premises’
	America ‘at the Threshold of a Revolution?’
	‘A Paper Victory for the People’
	Economic Warfare
	‘A Volley of Arrows’
8: Oil for War
	Oil ‘for a Great War’
	Internal Combustion
	Spheres of Interest
	‘Will Germany Control the Oil Supply of our Navy?’
	Britain’s State Oil Company
	‘Surrounded by Material Far More Inflammable than the Oil’
	The Turkish Petroleum Company
	The Sanctity of British Supremacy’
	‘We Have Lost Control and the Landslide has Begun’
Epilogue
Images
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright