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From Angel to Office Worker
2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their e...
The Ambivalent Revolution
Why did the Zapatista rebellion occur in Chiapas and not in some other state in southern Mexico where impoverished, marginalized indigenous peasants also suffer a legacy of exploitation and repression? Stephen Lewis believes the answers can be found in the 1920s and 1930s. During those critical years, Mexico's most important state- and nation-building agent, the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), struggled to introduce the reforms and institutions of the Mexican revolution in Chiapas. In 1934 the administration of president Lázaro Cárdenas endorsed "socialist" education, turning federal teachers into federal labor inspectors and promoters of agrarian reform. Teachers also attempted to "in...
Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine
In this volume the borders of North America serve as central locations for examining the consequences of globalization as it intersects with hegemonic spaces and ideas, national territorialism, and opportunities for—or restrictions on—mobility. The authors of the essays in this collection warn against falling victim to the myth of nation-states engaging in a valiant struggle against transnational flows of crime and vice. They take a long historical perspective, from Mesoamerican counterfeits of cacao beans used as currency to cattle rustling to human trafficking; from Canada’s and Mexico’s different approaches to the illegality of liquor in the United States during Prohibition to con...
Conflicto y reconciliación
Las independencias hispanoamericanas interrumpieron de forma abrupta las relaciones no solo políticas, sino también demográficas, económicas y culturales que durante casi trescientos años habían vinculado estrechamente a España con sus territorios americanos, ahora emancipados. La resistencia española a reconocer la independencia de sus antiguas colonias retrasó el comienzo del proceso de normalización de sus relaciones con los nuevos Estados americanos hasta el segundo tercio del siglo xix. Esta prolongada incomunicación hizo que los antiguos vínculos fueran en parte desdibujándose, mientras la exmetrópoli -lejos ya de su condición de gran potencia imperial- y las jóvenes na...
