Oil and the World

«Rock oil», «black gold», «blood of the earth»… — so many names created in a painful attempt to understand the nature of the mysterious dark substance. People knew about oil as far back as the Bronze Age, but only 150... years ago did it become a critically important resource — a resource capable of moving the boundaries of states, raising and crushing ideologies, destroying peoples - shaping the future.
 
This is about why empires collapse
Political scientist Leonid Krutakov explains in detail (step by step) how hydrocarbons replaced hydrocarbons, how a small group of people intended to seize control of all the power of the earth's subsoil, and how a new model of the world was created, within which modern civilization is forced to develop.
The untold story of oil — a story of unprecedented greatness, a story of oppression and suffering that what we ironically called «natural resources» brought to the world.
«Oil is the first commodity after gold that required the unification of the planet,» writes the author.
And this unification turned into global subjugation, from which there is still no way out. This book is for those who want to understand what reality we actually live in and stop being a statistic in someone else's game.
 
5 reasons to read:
1. An economic and political revelation of how the world became what it is;
2. A comprehensive analysis of two centuries of human history from a very unexpected perspective;
3. About 250 scientific sources, little-known statistics, numerous quotes, diagrams and charts;
4. 47 unique archival photographs and maps that immerse the reader in the context of the era;
5. Gift design, beautiful layout.