A History of Energy in Mexico

This volume synthesizes energy history in Mexico from pre-Conquest times to the present. It traces human development from a low-energy, sustainable existence to fossil-fuel based non-sustainability.

Philip L. Russell is an independent historian based in the United States. He is Editor of the Mexico Energy News and has written eight books, six of which are about Mexico. He has also written on Mexico in publications ranging from Mexico City's La Jornada to the New York Times. He was an interpreter for the National Science Foundation's effort to locate monarch butterfly overwintering sites and has led a Sierra Club trip and mountain bike tours to Mexico. Russell twice served as an official Mexican presidential election observer.