Part Iii. the Struggle Between the Powers.

Chap. VII. The Europeanische Petroleum Union: a German Trust for the Control of European Oil which founders in the Great World Conflict 97

VIII. The War and Oil 101

IX. An Imperialism not without Greatness 110

X. The Struggle between Great Britain and the United States in Mexico 113

XI. A State-subsidised Company: the Anglo-Persian 129

XII. An American Balkanism: the British Controlled Oil-fields 143

XIII. Political Tendencies of the Royal-Dutch: the British Oil Empire 147

XIV. How the United States lost Supremacy over Oil 151

XV. The American Retort 178

XVI. From Washington to Genoa: the Struggle for the Oil-fields of Russia 184