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THE MEXICAN MINING INDUSTRY 1890-1950
Author: MARVIN D. BERNSTEINThe Mexican Mining Industry, 1890-1950
Author: Marvin D. BernsteinThe Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century
Author: Jonathan C. BrownPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292791720
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Mexico's petroleum industry has come to symbolize the very sovereignty of the nation itself. Politicians criticize Pemex, the national oil company, at their peril, and President Salinas de Gortari has made clear that the free trade negotiations between Mexico and the United States will not affect Pemex's basic status as a public enterprise. How and why did the petroleum industry gain such prominence and, some might say, immunity within Mexico's political economy? The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century, edited by Jonathan C. Brown and Alan Knight, seeks to explain the impact of the oil sector on the nation's economic, political, and social development. The book is a multinational effort—one author is Australian, two British, three North American, and five Mexican. Each contributing scholar has researched and written extensively about Mexico and its oil industry.
A History of Mining in Latin America
Author: Kendall W. BrownPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826351077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable suffering. New World bullion stimulated the formation of the first world economy but at the same time it had profound consequences for labor, as mine operators and refiners resorted to extreme forms of coercion to secure workers. In many cases the environment also suffered devastating harm. All of this occurred in the name of wealth for individual entrepreneurs, companies, and the ruling states. Yet the question remains of how much economic development mining managed to produce in Latin America and what were its social and ecological consequences. Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to the present.
The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940
Author: Michael J. GonzalesPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082632780X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Examines Mexican politics and government from the dictatorship of General Porfirio Dâiaz to the presidency of General Lâazaro Câardenas.
The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880–1940
Author: Alex M. SaragozaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147730486X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
After the Revolution of 1910, a powerful group of Monterrey businessmen led by the Garza-Sada family emerged as a key voice of the Mexican private sector. The Monterrey Elite and The Mexican State is the first major historical study of the "Grupo Monterrey," the business elite that transformed Monterrey into a premier industrial center, the "Pittsburgh" of Mexico. Drawing on archival resources in the United States and Mexico and the work of previous scholars, Alex Saragoza examines the origins of the Monterrey elite. He argues that a "pact" between the new state and business interests was reached by the 1940 presidential elections—an accord that paved the way for the "alliance for profits" that has characterized relations between the Mexican state and capitalists since that time. More than a standard business history, this study delves into both the intimate social world of the Garza-Sadas and their allies and the ideas, beliefs, and vision of the Monterrey elite that set it apart from and often against the Mexican government. In so doing, The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State reveals the underlying forces that led to the most historic battle between the private sector and the Mexican state: the dramatic showdown in 1936 between the Garza-Sadas and then President Lázaro Cárdenas in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
The Making of the Mexican Border
Author: Juan Mora-TorresPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029277866X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The issues that dominate U.S.-Mexico border relations today—integration of economies, policing of boundaries, and the flow of workers from south to north and of capital from north to south—are not recent developments. In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores how these processes transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct economic, political, social, and cultural features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico. Mora-Torres argues that the years between the establishment of the U.S.-Mexico boundary in 1848 and the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 constitute a critical period in Mexican history. The processes of state-building, emergent capitalism, and growing linkages to the United States transformed localities and identities and shaped class formations and struggles in Nuevo León. Monterrey emerged as the leading industrial center and home of the most powerful business elite, while the countryside deteriorated economically, politically, and demographically. By 1910, Mora-Torres concludes, the border states had already assumed much of their modern character: an advanced capitalist economy, some of Mexico's most powerful business groups, and a labor market dependent on massive migrations from central Mexico.
A Brief History of Mexico
Author: Lynn V. FosterPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074054
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Praise for the previous editions: ..".well researched...concise...interesting..."--American Reference Books Annual
A Concise History of Mining
Author: Cedric.E. GregoryPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000446751
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A history of mining. This revised edition in a way describes the history of civilization and the early development of nations. Where minerals and mining existed, they provided ingredients for weapons, wealth and world power. The text should be useful in today's period of developing countries.
The Mexican Revolution
Author: James Wallace WilkiePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520015685
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Analytical study of national budget provisions to alleviate poverty and achieve social change in Mexico (social expenditure) - covers historical aspects, political aspects of budgetary policy, military expenditures, investments, rural area credit, financial aspects of social services and welfare, education, economic growth, changes in the social structure, illiteracy, the standard of living, cultural change, etc. Statistical tables, and bibliography pp. 307 to 322.