Oil and Politics in Latin America: Nationalist Movements and State Companies Book

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 inLatin America;
24. Concluding reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index.