Tinker Salas / Joseph / Rosenberg The Enduring Legacy

Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9223-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

A history of the oil industrys rise in Venezuela focused especially on the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both American and Venezuelan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tinker Salas, Miguel

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Introduction: Oil, Culture, and Society 1

1. A Tropical Mediterranean: Lake Maracaibo at the Turn of the Century 15

2. The Search for Black Gold 39

3. La Ruta Petrolera: Learning to Live with Oil 73

4. Oil, Race, Labor, and Nationalism 107

5. Our Tropical Outpost: Gender and the Senior Staff Camps 143

6. The Oil Industry and Civil Society 171

7. Oil and Politics: An Enduring Relation 205

Conclusion: An Enduring Legacy 237

Notes 251

Bibliography 299

Index 317

Über Autor(innen)

Miguel Tinker Salas is Arango Professor in Latin American History and Professor of History and Chicano/a Studies at Pomona College. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Eagles: Sonora and the Transformation of the Border during the Porfiriato and co-editor of Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy.”