The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900 1938 by Santiago, Myrna I.

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

An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Using northern...
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Author: Myrna I. Santiago
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The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900 1938 by Santiago, Myrna I.

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

$132.85

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

$132.85
Author: Myrna I. Santiago
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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. Such changes, furthermore, entailed effects, including the marginalisation of indigenes, environmental destruction, and tense labour relations. In the context of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), however, the results of oil development did not go unchallenged. Mexican oil workers responded to their experience by forging a politicised culture and a radical left militancy that turned 'oil country' into one of the most significant sites of class conflict in revolutionary Mexico. Ultimately, the book argues, Mexican oil workers deserve their share of credit for the 1938 decree nationalising the foreign oil industry - heretofore reserved for President Lazaro Cardenas - and thus changing the course of Mexican history.

Author: Myrna I. Santiago, Santiago Myrna I.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/02/2009
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780521115377

About the Author
Santiago, Myrna I.: - 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.

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