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The Ecology of Oil - Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 (Paperback)
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The Ecology of Oil - Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Environment and History
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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.
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