Everything you need to understand or teach The Prize by Daniel Yergin.
The Prize tells the story of how a natural resource, known worldwide from antiquity to possess useful properties, came to dominate the world's economy and steer its political fate as technology made possible the transformation of crude oil into commercial products. Few areas of the earth are excluded from treatment in this vast saga, but even these (Antarctica and Greenland, for instance) are surely touched by oil's effects. The book describes...
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Lesson Plans contain 120 pages of teaching material, including: