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Author Santiago, Myrna I., 1960-

Title The ecology of oil : environment, labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 / Myrna I. Santiago.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  HD9574.M615 H837 2006    Available  ---
Description xii, 411 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in environment and history
Studies in environment and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-396) and index.
Contents "Paradise" and "progress" : the Huasteca in the nineteenth century -- Controlling the tropical forest : the shift in land tenure patterns -- The anatomy of progress : changing land use patterns -- "Masters of men, masters of nature" : social change in the Huasteca -- "Coarse in manner" : Mexican oil workers, 1905-1921 -- Revolutionaries, conservation, and wasteland -- Revolution from below : the oil unions, 1924-1938.
Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico -- Huasteca Region -- History -- 20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects.
Mexico -- Huasteca Region.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Economic aspects.
Industrial relations -- Mexico -- Huasteca Region -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial relations.
ISBN 0521863244
9780521863247
Standard No. 9780521863247