Miguel Tinker Salas

The Enduring Legacy

Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

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Produktbeschreibung

Assesses the role of a foreign-dominated oil industry in the construction of Venezuelan citizenship and the industry's impact on culture and politics, as well as race, class, and labor relations of the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344001
• ISBN-10: 0822344009
• Artikelnr.: 25885114

Autorenporträt

Miguel Tinker Salas

Inhaltsangabe

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