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.