Author: Warren SchiffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
German Interests in Mexico in the Period of Porfirio Díaz
Author: Warren SchiffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfirian Mexico
Author: Natalia PriegoPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178138438X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book breaks new ground in the historiography of Mexico during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz by subjecting to detailed analysis the traditional belief that the ideology of the intellectual/political elite known as ‘the scientists’ was grounded in the philosophical ideas of Herbert Spencer.
Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz
Author: Steven B. BunkerPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826344569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels over is the new availability of cheap and useful goods. Steven Bunker’s study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that “incredible things are happening in this world.” In urban areas, and especially Mexico City, being a consumer increasingly defined what it meant to be Mexican. In an effort to reconstruct everyday life in Porfirian Mexico, Bunker surveys the institutions and discourses of consumption and explores how individuals and groups used the goods, practices, and spaces of urban consumer culture to construct meaning and identities in the rapidly evolving social and physical landscape of the capital city and beyond. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a colorful walking tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City. Emphasizing the widespread participation in this consumer culture, Bunker’s work overturns conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture.
Porfirio Diaz
Author: Paul GarnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.
Gender and Welfare in Mexico
Author: Nichole SandersPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271048875
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Oil and Revolution in Mexico
Author: Jonathan C. BrownPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz
Author: Steven B. BunkerPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826344542
Category : Consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City, overturning conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture"--Provided by publisher.
Barbarous Mexico
Author: John Kenneth TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.
Research in Mexican History
Author: Richard E. GreenleafPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt
Author: Friedrich Engelbert SchulerPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826321602
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Mexico's relationship with the world during the 1930s is revealed as a fascinating series of calculated responses to domestic political changes and international economic shifts.