This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical
edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously
unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive
introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's
manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General
Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of
the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This is the first
fully annotated critical edition of Waugh's book on Mexico, Robbery
Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson (1939), based on three months'
research by Waugh in the country in 1938 and rarely included in
later reprints of Waugh's travel writings. Waugh insisted in its
opening words: 'This is a political book'; it traced the
expropriation of British and American oil interests in Mexico by
its repressive Marxist government. It described the current
political and social inequities suffered by both its Mexican
citizens and foreign companies trading there and also provided a
powerful account of the history of Catholic persecution in the
country. Its narratives offered an implicit but potent warning
about the barbarity of totalitarian regimes as war in Western
Europe grew increasingly likely.
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