Oil and Politics in Latin America

List of tables; Preface; Glossary; Abbreviations; Note on currencies and other units of measurement; Maps; Introduction; Part I. The World Oil Environment: 1. The corporate ascendancy 1890–1927; 2. Retrenchment and concentration 1928–41; 3. The making of the post-war oil world 1942–55; 4. The major companies in retreat 1955–70; 5. The oil market revolution and its consequences for Latin America 1971–9; 6. Latin America in the twentieth-century oil system; Part II. The Major Expropriations: 7. Politics and the concession contract; 8. Argentina: YPF, Yrigoyen and the 1935 oil law; 9. Some nationalisations of the 1930s: Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia; 10. Cárdenas and the Mexican oil nationalisation; 11. The formation of Petrobrás; 12. The nationalisation of the IPC in Peru; 13. The nationalisation of Gulf Oil in Bolivia 1969; 14. Oil politics in Ecuador 1972–6; 15. The nationalisation of oil in Venezuela; 16. Oil companies and governments in twentieth-century Latin America; Part I of Gulf Oil in Bolivia 1969; 14. Oil politics in Ecuador 1972–6; 15. The nationalisation of oil in Venezuela; 16. Oil companies and governments in twentieth-century Latin America; Part III. The State Oil Companies: 17. Pemex in Mexican politics 1938–79; 18. The development of Petrobrás: oil company to conglomerate?; 19. YPF 1932–79: public enterprise or bureaucracy?; 20. Petroperú 1968–80: achievements and hard lessons; 21. YPFB and the development of oil in Bolivia; 22. Petrovén: the birth of a giant; 23. State oil companies in Latin America; 24. Concluding reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index.