Author: Harry Edward CrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Silver mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The Mining Economy of Zacatecas, Mexico in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Harry Edward CrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Silver mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The Economic and Social Development of High Emigration Areas in the State of Zacatecas
Author: Jesús TamayoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Working Papers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Mexican Heartland
Author: John TutinoPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400888840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuries The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the forces that shaped global capitalism—setting families and communities at the center of histories that transformed the world. Despite invasion, disease, and depopulation, Mexico’s heartland communities held strong on the land, adapting to sustain and shape the dynamic silver capitalism so pivotal to Spain’s empire and world trade for centuries after 1550. They joined in insurgencies that brought the collapse of silver and other key global trades after 1810 as Mexico became a nation, then struggled to keep land and self-rule in the face of liberal national projects. They drove Zapata’s 1910 revolution—a rising that rattled Mexico and the world of industrial capitalism. Although the revolt faced defeat, adamant communities forced a land reform that put them at the center of Mexico’s experiment in national capitalism after 1920. Then, from the 1950s, population growth and technical innovations drove people from rural communities to a metropolis spreading across the land. The heartland urbanized, leaving people searching for new lives—dependent, often desperate, yet still pressing their needs in a globalizing world. A masterful work of scholarship, The Mexican Heartland is the story of how landed communities and families around Mexico City sustained silver capitalism, challenged industrial capitalism—and now struggle under globalizing urban capitalism.
Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Author: Eric Van YoungPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461637171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both expanding and taking deeper root. The author explains the development of a regional agrarian system, centered on the landed estates of late colonial Mexico, the central economic and social institution of an overwhelmingly rural society. With rich empirical detail, he meticulously describes the features of the rural economy, including patterns of land ownership, credit and investment, labor relations, the structure of production, and the relationship of a major colonial city to its surrounding area. The book's most interesting and innovative element is its emphasis on the way the system of rural economy shaped, and was shaped by, the internal logic of a great spatial system, the region of Guadalajara. Van Young argues that Guadalajara's population growth progressively integrated the large geographical region surrounding the city through the mechanisms of the urban market for grain and meat, which in turn put pressure on local land and labor resources. Eventually this drove white and Indian landowners into increasingly sharp conflict and led to the progressive proletarianization of the region's peasantry during the last decades of the Spanish colonial era. It is no accident, given this history, that the Guadalajara region was one of the major areas of armed insurrection for most of the decade during Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain. By highlighting the way haciendas worked and changed over time, this indispensable study illuminates Mexico's economic and social history, the movement for independence, and the origins of the Mexican Revolution.
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs
Author: Rocio GomezPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496221583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining interests have come into open conflict with rural and city residents over water access, environmental health concerns, and disease compensation. In Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs, Rocio Gomez examines the detrimental effects of the silver mining industry on water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas and argues that the human labor necessary to the mining industry made the worker and the mine inseparable through the land, water, and air. Tensions arose between farmers and the mining industry over water access while the city struggled with mudslides, droughts, and water source contamination. Silicosis-tuberculosis, along with accidents caused by mining technologies like jackhammers and ore-crushers, debilitated scores of miners. By emphasizing the perspective of water and public health, Gomez illustrates that the human body and the environment are not separate entities but rather in a state of constant interaction.
Regional And Sectoral Development In Mexico As Alternatives To Migration
Author: Sergio Diaz-briquetsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000309428
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This volume examines a number of regional and sectoral developments in Mexico and assesses how they are related to undocumented migration to the United States, representing efforts to identify productive alternatives to the problem of migration.
Unauthorized Migration
Author: Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700
Author: P. J. BakewellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523127
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A study of the development of Zacatecas, centre of the principal silver-mining region in Mexico.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.