Mexican Oil Expropriation 1938 Petroleum Multinational Colonialism PEMEX

by Jesus Silva Herzog

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } El Petróleo de México: Recopilación de Documentos Oficiales del Conflicto de Orden Económico de la Industria Petrolera, con una Introducción que Resume sus Motivos y Consecuencias por el Profr. Jesus Silva Herzog Published by Gobierno de México, México, D.F., 1963. SPANISH TEXT. Second Edition, reprint of the 1940 first edition. Very paperback in original illustrated wraps. Tight binding, solid spine, some wear at corners and edges, clean unmarked text. Folio, documentary compilation, illustrated with maps, charts, diagrams and photos, (49, LIII, 925 pp), Spanish language text. On March 18, 1938, President Lázaro Cárdenas executed one of the most audacious acts of economic nationalism in Latin American history, expropriating all foreign oil companies operating in Mexico. Jesús Silva Herzog, the distinguished Mexican economist and historian who would later receive the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1962, compiled this essential documentary record in the immediate aftermath of that seismic event. Writing in 1940 when the reverberations of Mexico's bold assertion of sovereignty were still shaking international markets, Silva Herzog assembled the complete archive of official correspondence, legal decrees, diplomatic protests, and economic analyses that defined the petroleum conflict. The collection captures the mounting tensions between foreign oil giants—Standard Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, and their

• Publisher: Gobierno de México
• Year: 1938
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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