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La república de las letras: Galería de escritores
Novelas, poesías, cuentos, piezas teatrales, calendarios, crónicas, editoriales, reportajes de nota roja, volantes, historias, diarios, proclamas o discursos políticos, todos ellos forman parte de la cultura escrita del México decimonónico. Es una cultura escrita que no estaba parcelada en géneros, pues resultaba sumamente difusa la línea que separaba el discurso político de la historia; la historia de la literatura; la literatura del periodismo; el periodismo de la hoja volante, y la hoja volante del discurso político. Tampoco estaba parcelada en autores, pues unos y otros escribían en diferentes medios y con diferentes estilos. Además, la pluma se sumó al sable en la construcci...
A Life Together
An eminent historian’s biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writers Lucas Alamán (1792–1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national government on three occasions, founded the Conservative Party in the wake of the Mexican-American War, and authored the greatest historical work on Mexico’s struggle for independence. Though Mexican historiography has painted Alamán as a reactionary, Van Young’s balanced portrait draws upon fifteen years of research to argue that Alamán was a conservative modernizer, whose north star was always economic development and political stability as the means of drawing Mexico into the North Atlantic world of advanced nation-states. Van Young illuminates Alamán’s contribution to the course of industrialization, advocacy for scientific development, and unerring faith in private property and institutions such as church and army as anchors for social stability, as well as his less commendable views, such as his disdain for popular democracy.
The Right in the Americas
The Right in the Americas discusses the origins, development, and current state of conservative and right-wing movements in ten countries in the Americas. The growth of the right is one of the most important issues of the moment in global politics. Within the context of democracy erosion, rejection of traditional politics, and economic uncertainty, right and extreme-right actors are capable of offering misguided answers and hope to a significant part of a country’s population, who will trust their promises and bring them to power with their vote. This dynamic has repeated itself in an astonishingly consistent pattern across the Americas. This book analyses eight Latin American countries—...
Ink Under the Fingernails
Introduction -- The politics of loyalty -- Negotiating freedom -- Responsibility on trial -- Selling scandal : The Mysteries of the Inquisition -- The business of nation building -- Workers of thought -- Criminalizing the printing press -- Conclusion.
Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy
This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years. Drawing on several years of in-depth research, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, two of the foremost experts on the Mexican economy, examine Mexico's current development policies and problems from a historical perspective. They review long-term trends in the Mexican economy and analyze past episodes of radical shifts in development strategy and in the role of markets and the state. This book provides an overview of Mexico's economic development since Independence that compares the successive periods of stagnation and growth that alternately have ch...
Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930
This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s, Rio was Brazil’s economic hub, main industrial city, and prime consumer market. Meat consumption was an indicator of living standards and a matter of public concern. The work unveils that in the second half of the nineteenth century, the city was well supplied with red meat. Initially, dwellers relied mostly on salted meat; then, in the latter decades of the 1800s, two sets of changes upgraded fresh meat deliveries. First, ranching expansion and transportation innovation in southeast and central-west Brazil guaranteed a continuous flow of cattle to Rio. Second, the municipal centralization of meat processing and distribution made its provision regular and predictable. By the early twentieth century, fresh meat replaced salted meat in the urban marketplace. This study examines these developments in light of national and global developments in the livestock and meat industries.
Monuments of Progress
A social and cultural history of public health in Mexico during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book offers a fresh take on the history of medicine and public health by shifting away from the history of epidemic disease and heroic accounts of medical men and toward looking at public health in a broader social framework. It shows how new public health policies were instrumental in the 'modernisation' of Mexico. Adds to a small, but fast-growing body of literature, on the history of public health in Latin America and other developing areas of the world.
Laura Méndez de Cuenca
The exciting and heartbreaking biography of a woman willing to fight for liberation during a tumultuous time in Mexican history--Provided by publisher.
La formación del sistema monetario mexicano durante la transición de la Nueva España al México independiente
Hacia 1808, justo antes de las convulsiones de la monarquía española, el peso fuerte con el busto de Carlos IV y poco después, con el de Fernando VII, circulaba con gran asiduidad en mercados americanos, asiáticos y europeos. La Real Casa de Moneda de México era un bastión ejemplar de creación de moneda y producía numerario en la Nueva España bajo principios establecidos por un poder central: la corona española. En contraste, hacia 1824, un naciente congreso federal había permitido que la administración de casas de moneda y emisión de pesos plata recayesen en los gobiernos de provincia. La fabricación de pesos fuertes había transitado de la potestad del rey de España a la de ...
A Land Between Waters
This is the first book to explore the relationship between the people and the environment of Mexico. Featuring a dozen essays by leading scholars, it heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study in the field of Mexican history and introduces a new book series: “Latin American Landscapes.”
