Biographies and Corporate Histories

Akin, Edward N. Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988.

 

Bamberg, James.  British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

Beaton, Kendall. Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States. New York: Appleton-Century­Crofts, 1957.

 

Bergengren, Erik. Alfred Nobel: The Man and His Work. Trans. Alan Blair. London: Thomas Nelson, 1960.

 

Borkin, Joseph. The Crime and Punishment of I. G. Farben. New York: Free

 

Brady, Kathleen. Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker. New York: Seaview/Putnam, 1984.

 

de Chair, Somerset. Getty on Getty: A Man in a Billion. London: Cassell, 1989.

 

Chernow, Ron. Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1998.

 

Clarkson, Stephen and Christine McCall.  Trudeau and Our Times. Volume 1, The Magnificent Obsession. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990.

 

________. Trudeau and Our Times. Volume 2, The Heroic Delusion. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994

 

Coll, Steve. The Taking of Getty Oil. New York: Atheneum, 1987.

 

Collier, Peter, and David Horowitz. The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976.

 

Continental Oil Company. Conoco: The First One Hundred Years. New York: Dell, 1975.

 

Corley, T. A. B. A History of the Burmah Oil Company Vol.I, 1886-1924. Vol. 2, 1924-1966. London: Heinemann, 1983-88.

 

Dedmon, Emmett. Challenge and Response: A Modern History of Standard Oil Company (Indiana). Chicago: Mobium Press, 1984.

 

Destler, Chester McArthur. Roger Sherman and the Independent Oil Men. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.

 

Deterding, Henri. An International Oilman (as told to Stanley Naylor). London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1934.

 

Ezell, John S. Innovations in Energy: The Story of Kerr-McGee. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.

 

Fabricus, Johan. East Indies Episode. London: Shell Petroleum Company, 1949.

 

Fanning, Leonard M. American Oil Operations Abroad. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947.

 

______. The Story of the American Petroleum Institute. New York: World Petroleum Policies, 1960

 

Ferrier, R. W. The History of The British Petroleum Company. Vol. I, The Developing Years, 1901-1932. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Flynn, John T. God's Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932

 

Forbes, R. J. and D. R. O'Beirne. The Technical Development of the Royal Dutch/Shell, 1890-1940. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1957.

 

Gerretson, F. C. History of the Royal Dutch. 4 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1953-57.

 

Gibb, George Sweet, and Evelyn H. Knowlton. History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Vol. 2, The Resurgent Years 1911-I927. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

 

Giddens, Paul H.. Standard Oil Company (Indiana): Oil Pioneer in the Middle West. New York: Appleton­Century-Crofts, 1955.

Giebelhaus, August W. Business and Government in the Oil Industry: A Case Study of Sun Oil, 1876-1945. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1980.

 

Goulder, Grace. John D. Rockefeller: The Cleveland Years. Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1972

 

Gulbenkian, Nubar. Portrait in Oil. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

 

Halasz, Nicholas. Nobel: A Biography of Alfred Nobel. New York: Orion Press, 1959.

Halliday, W. Trevor. John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937: Industrial Pioneer and Man. New York: Newcomen Society, 1948.

 

Hamilton, Adrian. Oil: The Price of Power. London: Michael Joseph/Rainbird, 1986.

 

Hammer, Armand, with Neil Lyndon. Hammer. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1987.

 

Harris, Kenneth. The Wildcatter: A Portrait of Robert O. Anderson. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.

 

Hawke, David Freeman. John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

 

Hayes, Peter. Industry and Ideology: I. G. Farben in the Nazi Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

 

Henriques, Robert. Marcus Samuel: First Viscount Bearsted and Founder of the `Shell' Transport and Trading Company, 1853-1927. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960.

 

Hewins, Ralph. Mr. Five Percent: The Story of Calouste Gulbenkian. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1958.

 

______. The Richest American: J. Paul Getty. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1960.

Hidy, Ralph W., and Muriel E. Hidy. History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Vol. I, Pioneering in Big Business, 1882- 1911. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955.

 

Hurt, Harry, III. Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver Crash. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

 

James, Marquis. The Texaco Story: The First Fifty Years, 1902-1952. New York: Texas Company. I953­.

 

Johnson, Arthur M. The Challenge of Change: The Sun Oil Company, 1945-1977. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1983.

 

Jones, Charles S. From the Rio Grande to the Arctic: The Story of the Richfield Oil Corporation. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.

 

King, John O. Joseph Stephen Cullinan: A Study of Leadership in the Texas Petroleum Industry, 1897-1937. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.

 

Koskoff, David E. The Mellons: The Chronicle of America's Richest Family. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978.

 

Larson, Henrietta M., Evelyn H. Knowlton, and Charles S. Popple. History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Vol. 3, New Horizons, 1927-1950. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

 

Larson, Henrietta M., and Kenneth Wiggins Porter. History of Humble Oil and Refining Company: A Study in Industrial Growth. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959.

 

Lebkicher, Roy. Aramco and World Oil. New York: Russell F. Moore, 1953.

 

Lenzner, Robert. Getty: The Richest Man in the World. London: Grafton Books, 1985

Longhurst, Henry. Adventure in Oil: The Story of British Petroleum. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1959.

Manchester, William. A Rockefeller Family Portrait, From John D. to Nelson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

 

Mellon, W. L., and Boyden Sparkes. Judge Mellon's Sons. Pittsburgh, 1948.

 

Miller, Russell. The House of Getry. London: Michael Joseph, 1985.

 

Monroe, Elizabeth. Philby of Arabia. London: Faber and Faber, 1973.

Montagu, Gilbert. The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company. New York: Harper & Row, 1903

 

Moore, Austin Leigh. John D. Archbold and the Early Development of Standard Oil. New York: Macmillan, 1930.

 

Nevins, Allan. John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.

 

______. Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.

 

Phillips Petroleum Company. Phillips: The First 66 Years. Bartlesville, Okla.: Phillips Petroleum, 1983.

 

Pickens, T. Boone, Jr. Boone. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987

 

Popple, Charles Sterling. Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) in World War II. New York: Standard Oil, 1952.

 

Pratt, Joseph A., William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan, Jr.  Voice of the Marketplace:  A History of the National Petroleum Council.  College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

 

Roberts, Glyn. The Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Sir Henri Deterding. New York: Covici Friede, 1938.

 

Robinson, Jeffrey. Yamani: The Inside Story. London: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Rockefeller, John D. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909.

 

Rowland, John, and Basil Cadman. Ambassador for Oil: The Life of John, First Baron Cadman. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1960.

 

Sampson, Anthony. The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Created. Rev. ed. London: Coronet, 1988.

 

Seymour, Ian. OPEC: Instrument of Change. London: Macmillan, 1980.

Sinclair Oil. A Great Name in Oil: Sinclair Through So Years. New York: F. W. Dodge/McGraw-Hill, 1966.

Skeet, Ian. OPEC-Twenty-five Years of Prices and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

 

Spence, Hartzell. Portrait in Oil: How the Ohio Oil Company Grew to Become Marathon. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.

Spender, J. A. Weetman Pearson: First Viscount Cowdray, 1856-1927. London: Cassell, 1930.

Tarbell, Ida M. The History of the Standard Oil Company. z vols. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904.

 

Taylor, Frank J., and Earl M. Welty. Black Bonanza: How an Oil Hunt Grew into the Union Oil Company of California. New York: Whittlesley House, McGraw-Hill, 1950.

 

Terzian, Philip. OPEC: The Inside Story. Trans. Michael Pallis. London: Zed Books, 1985.

 

Thompson, Craig. Since Spindletop: A Human Story of Gulf's First Half-Century. Pittsburgh: Gulf Oil, 1951.

Tolf, Robert W. The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1976.

Wall, Bennett H. Growth in a Changing Environment: A History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), 1950-1972, and Exxon Corporation, 1972-1975. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Wall, Bennett H. and George S. Gibb. Teagle of Jersey Standard. New Orleans: Tulane University, 1974.

Weinbetg, Steve. Armand Hammer: The Untold Story. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

White, Gerald T. Formative Years in the Far West: A History of Standard Oil Company of California and Predecessors Through 1919. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962.

Williamson, Harold F., Ralph L. Andreano, Arnold R. Daum, and Gilbert C. Klose. The American Petroleum Industry. Vol. 2, The Age of Energy, 1899-1959. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1963.

 

Williamson, Harold F., and Arnold R. Daum. The American Petroleum Industry. Vol. 2, The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1959.

Winkler, John K. John D.: A Portrait in Oils. New York: Vanguard, 1929.

Wirth, John D., ed. Latin American Oil Companies and the Politics of Energy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.