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499 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-490) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction Capitalism and community, autonomy and patriarchy -- Part I. Silver capitalism, 1500-1820 -- Chapter 1. Empire, capitalism, and the silver economies of Spanish America -- Chapter 2. Silver capitalism and indigenous republics: Rebuilding communities, 1500-1700 -- Chapter 3. Communities carrying capitalism: Symbiotic exploitations, 1700-1815 -- Chapter 4. Communities challenging capitalism: Insurgency in the Mezquital, 1800-1815 -- Chapter 5. Insurgencies and empires: The fall of silver capitalism, 1808-21 -- Part II. Industrial capitalism, 1820-1920 -- Chapter 6. Mexico in the age of industrial capitalism, 1810-1910 -- Chapter 7. Anáhuac upside down: Chalco and Iztacalco, 1820-45 -- Chapter 8. Commercial revival, liberal reform, and community resistance: Chalco, 1845-70 -- Chapter 9. Carrying capitalism into revolution: Making Zapatista communities, 1870-1920 -- Chapter 10. Capitalism constraining revolution: Mexico in a world at war, 1910-1920 -- Part III. National capitalism and globalization, 1920-2000 -- Chapter 11. Mexico and the struggle for national capitalism, 1920-80 -- Chapter 12. After Zapata: Communities carrying national capitalism, 1920-80 -- Chapter 13. Building the metropolis: Mexico City, 1940-2000 -- Epilogue. After the fall (of autonomies): Globalization without revolution. |
| Summary |
The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the forces that shaped global capitalism setting families and communities at the center of histories that transformed the world. Despite invasion, disease, and depopulation, Mexico's heartland communities held strong on the land, adapting to sustain and shape the dynamic silver capitalism so pivotal to Spain's empire and world trade for centuries after 1550. 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. They drove Zapata's 1910 revolution a rising that rattled Mexico and the world of industrial capitalism. 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. Then, from the 1950s, population growth and technical innovations drove people from rural communities to a metropolis spreading across the land. The heartland urbanized, leaving people searching for new lives--dependent, often desperate, yet still pressing their needs in a globalizing world. -- Provided by publisher. |
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Mexico -- Politics and government.
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Mexico -- History.
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Mexico -- Economic conditions.
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780691174365 |
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0691174369 |
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