oil lighting up our lives-D.K Taknet -9789352675425
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oil lighting up our lives-D.K Taknet
| Oil,
known to man even prior to the contemporary era, has found a permanent niche
in the lives of people throughout the world, serving a range of needs from
morning to the moment we go to sleep. Our civilisation depends more heavily
on oil than on any other single commodity. Our world is ruled by oil. Its
widespread availability and use rose in prominence during the First World
War, and since then the world has continued to depend more and more heavily
on it for a multitudinous range of products and services, among which
transportation is the most important. The history of oil dates back to the dawn of civilisation. For instance, one of the earliest civilisations that developed in the great river valleys of Mesopotamia used asphalt obtained from hand-dug pits for caulking boats, medicinal and ornamental purposes. Oil: Lighting up Our Lives unfolds a worldwide view of the history of the discovery, development and uses of oil, the global oil industry, how the geopolitics of oil and its availability has transformed the fate of nations, and the multifaceted role that it plays in our everyday lives. The reader is caught up in the excitement of early oil discoveries worldwide and in India, and their cataclysmic effects on men and nations, while at the same time absorbing its damaging effects on the environment. For all those with even a passing interest in history, politics, international affairs, global economies, sociology and the environment, and the significant role that oil plays in them, this well-researched book presents an engrossing and all-embracing picture of the role of oil through the ages and, more particularly in our time, and the development and power of the global oil industry. The author's compelling narrative, supplemented by 600 rare photographs, illustrations, lithographs and paintings are calculated to capture the imagination of the discerning reader. |
| Book | |
| ISBN | 9789352675425 |
| PUBLISHER | IIME |
| Pages | 363 |
| Binding | 0 |
| Edition | 2018 |
| Language | ENGLISH |