Venezuela: what everyone needs to know
Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and relations have been strained ever since. In this concise, accessible addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to KnowRG series, Miguel Tinker Salas -- a native of Venezuela who has written extensively about the country -- takes …
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- Full title :Venezuela : what everyone needs to know / Miguel Tinker Salas.
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Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and relations have been strained ever since. In this concise, accessible addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to KnowRG series, Miguel Tinker Salas -- a native of Venezuela who has written extensively about the country -- takes a broadly chronological approach that focuses especially on oil and its effects on Venezuela's politi.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
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- Description:1 online resource (265 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199790531, 0199790531
- oclc:ocn903974735
- LC Classification:F2321
- Dewey Decimal:987
Table of Contents
Venezuela; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction; Part One Venezuela Before Oil; What groups lived in Venezuela before the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century?; What is the origin of the name "Venezuela"?; How did Spanish colonial rule mark Venezuela?; What was the character of race relations in colonial society?; What was colonial society like for women?; What sparked the independence movement?; Why did the first movement for independence fail?; Why is the figure of Simón Bolívar so important and what is his legacy in Venezuela?
How is Bolívar remembered today?What happened in Venezuelan politics and society after Bolívar?; Why did José Antonio Páez emerge as the central figure after independence?; Why couldn't elites forge a consensus?; What was the importance of the Liberal Party?; Were the Federal Wars of 1858-1863 inevitable?; How did post-Federal War Venezuela evolve?; Who was Cipriano Castro and how did the Andeans come to dominate Venezuela?; Why did European powers blockade Venezuela in 1902?; What were social and racial conditions like on the eve of the twentieth century?
Part Two Venezuela in the Twentieth CenturyWhen w…
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