The Ecology of Oil

An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest.

Myrna I. Santiago is Associate Professor of History at St. Mary's College of California. Before earning her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley, she travelled to Mexico on a Fullbright Fellowship and later worked in Nicaragua as a Human Rights investigator. Her work has appeared in Environmental History.

"The research contained in this book is quite good, [...] [Santiago's] contributions to the budding scholarship on environmental change in Mexico deserve notice. [...]There is much of great value in Santiago's book." -Emilio Kouri, University of Chicago, American Historical Review "...the author had produced an imaginative and well researched account of oil development in the Mexican Huasteca." -Peter Linder, The Americas