VOLUME I: FROM CHALLENGER TO JOINT INDUSTRY LEADER, 1890-1939 ; VOLUME II: POWERING THE HYDROCARBON REVOLUTION, 1939-1973 ; VOLUME III: KEEPING COMPETITIVE UNDER GLOBAL CHALLENGES, 1973-2007 ; VOLUME IV: INDEX
Stephen Howarth, an independent full-time author of history since 1979, has 14 major published works on a wide range of subjects. He first came to international attention with his history of the Knights Templar (Collins, 1982, updated and reissued Continuum, 2006) and has made numerous important contributions to international naval history. His corporate histories include The Story of P&O (co-written with David Howarth, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987), Sea Shell: The Story of Shell's British Tanker Fleets, 1892-1992 ( Thomas Reed, 1992), A Century in Oil: The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, 1897-1997 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), and Henry Poole, Founders of Savile Row: The Making of a Legend (Bene Factum, 2003). Stephen Howarth is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Joost Jonker is a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Utrecht. He graduated from the Free University, Amsterdam, and has since specialized in financial and business history. Keetie E. Sluyterman is Professor of Business History at Utrecht University, and senior researcher at the Research Institute for History and Culture at the same university. She has written or jointly authored a large number of commissioned business histories, including Oce, De Kuyper, Proost and Brandt, CSM, Rabobank, and Hagemeyer. Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Utrecht. Van Zenden studied economics and history at the Free University of Amsterdam, received a Ph D from the Agricultural university of Wageningen (in 1985), and has published widely on the economic history of Western Europe and Indonesia.
The latest in a long tradition of corporate chemical histories that include well-received works underwritten by DuPont, Dow, BASF, CIBA, Roche...this three-volume set (plus accompanying appendixes and DVDs) from Royal Dutch Shell is the most comprehensively conceived, researched, written, and elegantly produced of all... As a work of history, it provides a huge service; for those interested in chemistry, geology, engineering, and business, it will likely be a resource second to none; as a set of books, it is truly a work of art and a pleasure to add to any library...Highly recommended. CHOICE
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