Chapter I: 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

PART IV. France's Part in the Struggle between
Great Britain and the United States.

Chap. XVII. The Cartel of Ten 201

XVIII. The Petroleum Consortium 207

XIX. How Great Britain Succeeded in Winning
France over to Her Side in the
Struggle with the United States 215

XX. Great Britain and the Oil-fields of the
French Colonial Empire 234

XXI. The _Standard_ and France 239

XXII. Conclusion: the World in 1923 244