The enduring legacy : oil, culture, and society in Venezuela /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tinker Salas, Miguel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > Venezuela.
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects > Venezuela.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect social > Venezuela.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect politique > Venezuela.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Civilization.
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects.
Social conditions
Venezuela > Civilization > 20th century.
Venezuela > Social conditions > 20th century.
Venezuela > Civilisation > 20e siècle.
Venezuela > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Venezuela.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : oil, culture, and society
  • A tropical Mediterranean : Lake Maracaibo at the turn of the century
  • The search for black gold
  • La ruta petrolera : learning to live with oil
  • Oil, race, labor, and nationalism
  • Our tropical outpost : gender and the senior staff camps
  • The oil industry and civil society
  • Oil and politics : an enduring relation
  • Conclusion : an enduring legacy.

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