Juan Vicente Gomez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908-1935 (2002)

Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 052189218X

Condition: Good

There are notes in the margins of several pages, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

Dr. McBeth's study of the first oil age of Venezuela marshals new evidence to support his important revisionist conclusions: the government of Gomez was much quicker in grasping its new opportunities and a much more skillful bargainer than it is usually held to be; a wider range of people were participating in oil deals than just the Dictator and his immediate circle; some of his agenst were altruistic and articulate nationalists; and in general his strategy towards the companies was well calculated to maintain Venezuela's independence and bargaining power. - from the back cover