The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691174369 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Back Cover"The Mexican Heartland is an excellent book. His argument is convincing and important."--Kenneth Pomeranz, author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy"A major contribution. Tutino opens Mexican history to the world and brings world history to Mexico by telling the centuries-long story of the indigenous communities of Mexico's heartland as they faced an emergent global capitalism."--Brian P. The Mexican Heartland is a passionate and powerfully told story of capitalism's role in shaping what Mexico is today."--Margaret Chowning, author of Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752–1863"This is a deeply ambitious book with a highly conseque
John Tutino is professor of history and international affairs and director of the Americas Initiative at Georgetown University. His books include Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America and From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750–1940 (Princeton).
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. They drove Zapata’s 1910 revolutiona rising that rattled Mexico and the world of industrial capitalism. The heartland urbanized, leaving people searching for new livesdependent, 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 capitalismand now struggle under globalizing urban capitalism.. A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. 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. Then, from the 1950s, population growth and technical innovations drove people from rural communities to a metro