A Century in oil: the shell transport and trading company 1897-1997/ Stephen Howarth. –

By: Howarth, Stephen
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London: Weindefeld & Nicolson, c1997Description: 397p.: ill.; 26cmISBN: 0-297-82247-0Subject(s): DDC classification: GC 665.5 H848 Howarth, Stephen 1997 Summary: A Century in oil: the shell transport and trading company 1897-1997. Contents : background : 1853-1891 -- origins : 1892-1898 -- too far, too fast : 1899-1906 -- two into one : 1907-1914 -- the great war : 1914-1918 -- a vast and world -wide scale : 1919-1925 -- roaring along : 1925-1929 -- surviving the flood : 1930-1934 -- on the roller -coaster : 1935 -1939 -- fuelling democracy : 1939-1945 -- the fight to recover : 1946 - 1951 -- all the world's a satage : 1952 - 1956 -- suez and after : 1957-1962 -- an operation without commercial parallel:1963-1967 -- the end of the buyer's market : 1967-1972 -- cataclysm : 1973 -1977 -- slings and arrows : 1978-1982 -- exit opec : 1983-1987 -- deeper still and deeper : 1988-1992 -- the changing shape of shell : 1993- 1997.
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Includes index.

A Century in oil: the shell transport and trading company 1897-1997. Contents : background : 1853-1891 -- origins : 1892-1898 -- too far, too fast : 1899-1906 -- two into one : 1907-1914 -- the great war : 1914-1918 -- a vast and world -wide scale : 1919-1925 -- roaring along : 1925-1929 -- surviving the flood : 1930-1934 -- on the roller -coaster : 1935 -1939 -- fuelling democracy : 1939-1945 -- the fight to recover : 1946 - 1951 -- all the world's a satage : 1952 - 1956 -- suez and after : 1957-1962 -- an operation without commercial parallel:1963-1967 -- the end of the buyer's market : 1967-1972 -- cataclysm : 1973 -1977 -- slings and arrows : 1978-1982 -- exit opec : 1983-1987 -- deeper still and deeper : 1988-1992 -- the changing shape of shell : 1993- 1997.

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