Author: Mexico. Comisión Nacional de CaminosPublisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
"Shown is the extensive road work needed for the blossoming tourist industry in Mexico."--Dealer's description.
Los caminos de México
Author: Mexico. Comisión Nacional de CaminosPublisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
"Shown is the extensive road work needed for the blossoming tourist industry in Mexico."--Dealer's description.
Historia de los caminos de Mexico
Author: Samuel Salinas AlvarezPublisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Building the King's Highway
Author: Bruce A. CastlemanPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816524394
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Focusing on the camino real linking Mexico City and the port of Veracruz, Castleman has written a social history of road construction laborers in late Bourbon Mexico. He has drawn on employment and census records to study a major shift in methods used by the Spanish colonial regime to mobilize the supply of unskilled labor - and concomitant changes in the identities those laborers asserted for themselves. By linking census and employment records, he uncovers a host of social indicators such as marriage preference, family structure, and differences over time in how the caste system was used to classify people according to ancestry. His work provides a valuable new perspective on people's lives as it advances our understanding of labor in late colonial Latin America.
Caminos De Mexico. With the Collaboration of Gonzalo Obregon
Author: John Cary DavisPublisher:
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Category : Spanish language
Languages : es
Pages : 209
Book Description
Caminos de Mexico
Author: Guía Goodrich EuzkadiPublisher:
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Category : Automobile travel
Languages : es
Pages : 340
Book Description
Camino Del Norte
Author: Howard J. ErlichmanPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603445463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Some five hundred miles of superhighway run between the Rio Grande and the Red River-present-day Interstate 35. This towering achievement of modern transportation engineering links 7.7 million people, yet it all evolved from a series of humble little trails.
The History of Capitalism in Mexico
Author: Enrique SemoPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292766114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from its inception, or was it essentially feudal, as traditional historiography viewed it? In this pathfinding study, Enrique Semo offers a fresh vision: that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development. Responding to questions raised by contemporary Mexican society, Semo sees the origin of both backwardness and development not in climate, race, or a heterogeneous set of unrelated traits, but rather in the historical interaction of each social formation. In his analysis, Mexico's history is conceived as a succession of socioeconomic formations, each growing within the "womb" of its predecessor. Semo sees the task of economic history to analyze each of these formations and to construct models that will help us understand the laws of its evolution. His premise is that economic history contributes to our understanding of the present not by formulating universal laws, but by studying the laws of development and progression of concrete economic systems. The History of Capitalism in Mexico opens with the Conquest and concludes with the onset of the profound socioeconomic transformation of the last fifty years of the colony, a period clearly representing the precapitalist phase of Mexican development. In the course of his discussion, Semo addresses the role of dependency—an important theoretical innovation—and introduces the concept of tributary despotism, relating it to the problems of Indian society and economy. He also provides a novel examination of the changing role of the church throughout Mexican colonial history. The result is a comprehensive picture, which offers a provocative alternative to the increasingly detailed and monographic approach that currently dominates the writing of history. Originally published as Historia del capitalismo en México in 1973, this classic work is now available for the first time in English. It will be of interest to specialists in Mexican colonial history, as well as to general readers.
Border Land, Border Water
Author: C. J. AlvarezPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147731900X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet. Tracing the accretion of ports of entry, boundary markers, transportation networks, fences and barriers, surveillance infrastructure, and dams and other river engineering projects, C. J. Alvarez advances a broad chronological narrative that captures the full life cycle of border building. He explains how initial groundbreaking in the nineteenth century transitioned to unbridled faith in the capacity to control the movement of people, goods, and water through the use of physical structures. By the 1960s, however, the built environment of the border began to display increasingly obvious systemic flaws. More often than not, Alvarez shows, federal agencies in both countries responded with more construction—“compensatory building” designed to mitigate unsustainable policies relating to immigration, black markets, and the natural world. Border Land, Border Water reframes our understanding of how the border has come to look and function as it does and is essential to current debates about the future of the US-Mexico divide.
Mexico's Cold War
Author: Renata KellerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316352234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure. Mexico did in fact suffer from the political and social turbulence that characterized the Cold War era in general, and by maintaining relations with Cuba it played a unique, and heretofore overlooked, role in the hemispheric Cold War. The Cuban Revolution was an especially destabilizing force in Mexico because Fidel Castro's dedication to many of the same nationalist and populist causes that the Mexican revolutionaries had originally pursued in the early twentieth century called attention to the fact that the government had abandoned those promises. A dynamic combination of domestic and international pressures thus initiated Mexico's Cold War and shaped its distinct evolution and outcomes.
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