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

Name: Ecology of Oil Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938
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ISBN: 9780521115377

ISBN-10: 052111537X

ISBN-13: 9780521115377

Edition: 2009

Authors: Myrna I. Santiago

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Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

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.



List of illustrations, figures, and appendices


Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Huasteca Before Oil



'Paradise' and 'progress': the Huasteca in the 19th century



The Ecology of Oil



Controlling the tropical forest: the shift in land tenure systems



The anatomy of progress: changing land use patterns



'Masters of men, masters of nature': social change in the Huasteca



Challenging the Ecology of Oil



'Rude in manner': the Mexican oil workers, 1905-ï¿½1921



Revolutionaries, conservation, and wasteland



The revolution from below: the oil unions, 1924-ï¿½1938


Conclusion


Epilogue


Appendices


A note on the sources


Archives consulted


Selected bibliography


Index