Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador

by Suzana Sawyer

Book Overview

Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822332728
• ISBN13: 9780822332725
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.3"