Contents

pp v-vi

List of tables

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Glossary

pp xiii-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xvii

Note on currencies and other units of measurement

pp xviii-xviii

Maps: Latin America in 1920, 1940, 1960 and 1981; showing importing countries, exporting countries and countries self-sufficient in oil

pp xix-xxii

Introduction: The politics of oil in twentieth-century Latin America

pp 1-4

Part I - The world oil environment

pp 5-6

1 - The corporate ascendancy 1890–1927

pp 7-42

2 - Retrenchment and concentration 1928–41

pp 43-60

3 - The making of the post-war oil world 1942–55

pp 61-82

4 - The major companies in retreat 1955–70

pp 83-113

5 - The oil market revolution and its consequences for Latin America 1971–9

pp 114-143

6 - Latin America in the twentieth-century oil system

pp 144-156

Part II - The major expropriations

pp 157-158

7 - Politics and the concession contract

pp 159-161

8 - Argentina: YPF, Yrigoyen and the 1935 oil law

pp 162-181

9 - Some nationalisations of the 1930s: Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia

pp 182-200

10 - Cárdenas and the Mexican oil nationalisation

pp 201-226

11 - The formation of Petrobrás

pp 227-242

12 - The nationalisation of the ipc in Peru

pp 243-257

13 - The nationalisation of Gulf Oil in Bolivia 1969

pp 258-273

14 - Oil politics in Ecuador 1972–6

pp 274-292

15 - The nationalisation of oil in Venezuela

pp 293-311

16 - Oil companies and governments in twentieth-century Latin America

pp 312-326

Part III - The state oil companies

pp 327-328

17 - Pemex in Mexican politics 1938–79

pp 329-367

18 - The development of Petrobrás: oil company to conglomerate?

pp 368-400