Myrna I. Santiago is Associate Professor of History at St. Mary's College of California. Before earning her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley, she travelled to Mexico on a Fullbright Fellowship and later worked in Nicaragua as a Human Rights investigator. Her work has appeared in Environmental History.
List of illustrations, figures, and appendices
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Huasteca Before Oil: 1. 'Paradise' and 'progress': the Huasteca in the 19th century
Part II. The Ecology of Oil: 2. Controlling the tropical forest: the shift in land tenure systems
3. The anatomy of progress: changing land use patterns
4. 'Masters of men, masters of nature': social change in the Huasteca
Part III. Challenging the Ecology of Oil: 5. 'Rude in manner': the Mexican oil workers, 1905-1921
6. Revolutionaries, conservation, and wasteland
7. The revolution from below: the oil unions, 1924-1938
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendices
A note on the sources
Archives consulted
Selected bibliography
Index.
