You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas.
In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its northern borders and curb migration to the United States, set out to relocate “Mexico-Texano” families, or Tejanos, on Mexican land. In Colonizing Ourselves, José Angel Hernández explores these movements back to Mexico, also known as autocolonization, as distinct in the history of settler colonization. Unlike other settler colonial states that relied heavily on overseas settlers, especially from Europe and Asia, Mexico received less than 1 percent of these nineteenth-century immigrants. This reality, coupled with the growing migration of farmers and laborers northward toward the United States, led ultimate...
Prior to the Revolution of 1910, economic ideals were a dominant mode of political and social discourse in Mexico. Scholars have focused considerable attention on the expansion of the market economy during this period—particularly its political, economic, and social importance. Richard Weiner now enhances our understanding of the emergence of modern Mexico by exploring the market's immense symbolic significance. Race, Nation, and Market traces the intellectual strands of economic thought during the late Porfiriato. Even in the face of Díaz's political reign, the market became the dominant theme in national discourse as contemporaries of all political persuasions underscored its social and...
Este documento tiene el propósito de poner a disposición de los usuarios un panorama general de los aspectos metodológicos y conceptuales que se definieron para ampliar la temática y con ello la oferta de información censal, al utilizar la manzana como unidad de análisis e incorporar temas y variables que dan cuenta del entorno de las viviendas, concerniente a la infraestructura vial, el mobiliario y los servicios urbanos, con el fin de contribuir al conocimiento de las condiciones de vida en localidades de 5 mil y más habitantes..
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
None
La presente bibliografía se organizó en vista del siguiente criterio: incluir todas las obras de autores, mexicanos o extranjeros, que contengan informes o cuadros estadísticos, datos, noticias y, en general, materiales aprovechables para estudios estadísticos. Por lo tanto, en primer lugar deberían incluirse los estudios sobre cuestiones de método, las aplicaciones estrictamente metodológicas y las obras formadas exclusiva o predominantemente por tablas o cuadros estadísticos; en segundo lugar, las obras de geografía, historia, sociología, economía, etc..
The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 145 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.