Ecology of Oil - Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938

Informationen zum Autor Myrna I. Santiago is Associate Professor of History at St. Mary's College of California. Before earning her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley, she travelled to Mexico on a Fullbright Fellowship and later worked in Nicaragua as a Human Rights investigator. Her work has appeared in Environmental History. Klappentext An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Using northern Veracruz as a case study! the author argues that oil production generated major historical and environmental transformations in land tenure systems and uses! and social organisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations, figures, and appendices; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Huasteca Before Oil: 1. 'Paradise' and 'progress': the Huasteca in the 19th century; Part II. The Ecology of Oil: 2. Controlling the tropical forest: the shift in land tenure systems; 3. The anatomy of progress: changing land use patterns; 4. 'Masters of men, masters of nature': social change in the Huasteca; Part III. Challenging the Ecology of Oil: 5. 'Rude in manner': the Mexican oil workers, 1905-1921; 6. Revolutionaries, conservation, and wasteland; 7. The revolution from below: the oil unions, 1924-1938; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendices; A note on the sources; Archives consulted; Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Santiago Myrna I., Myrna I. Santiago
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521115377
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11537-7
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Studies in Environment and His; Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / General, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history, Energy industries and utilities