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Author : Lorena Parlee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Porfirio Díaz, Railroads, and Development in Northern Mexico written by Lorena Parlee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Matthews
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803249438
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Civilizing Machine written by Michael Matthews and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country’s booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation’s status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico’s railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination. In The Civilizing Machine Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people’s understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Gen. Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad’s development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, “order and progress.” The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution.
Author : Teresa Miriam Van Hoy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742553286
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book A Social History of Mexico's Railroads written by Teresa Miriam Van Hoy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely absent from our history books is the social history of railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico, which promoted rapid economic growth that greatly benefited elites but also heavily impacted rural and provincial Mexican residents in communities traversed by the rails. In this beautifully written and original book, Teresa Van Hoy connects foreign investment in Mexico, largely in railroad development, with its effects on the people living in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico's region of greatest ethnic diversity. Students will be drawn to a fascinating cast of characters, as muleteers, artisans, hacienda peons, convict laborers, dockworkers, priests, and the rural police force (rurales) join railroad regulars in this rich social history. New empirical evidence, some drawn from two private collections, elaborates on the huge informal economy that supported railroad development. Railroad officials sought to gain access to local resources such as land, water, construction materials, labor, customer patronage, and political favors. Residents, in turn, maneuvered to maximize their gains from the wages, contracts, free passes, surplus materials, and services (including piped water) controlled by the railroad. Those areas of Mexico suffering poverty and isolation attracted public investment and infrastructure. A Social History of Mexico's Railroads is the dynamic story of the people and times that were changed by the railroads and is sure to engage students and general readers alike.
Author : Fred Wilbur Powell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330195055
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Railroads of Mexico written by Fred Wilbur Powell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Railroads of Mexico Mexico's centennial year, 1910, marked the end of normal conditions throughout the country. Porfirio Diaz, who had brought order out of chaos, was an old man. The voices of discontent were no longer quiet, and the world was asking with renewed interest the question, "After Diaz, what?" Hardly had the great anniversary celebration been concluded when insurrection broke out in the north, and a reign of disorder set in which has continued with varying degrees of violence until the present. When the power that maintains public order breaks down, property interests suffer; and railroads are peculiarly liable to loss and destruction. The regularly constituted government avails itself of its right to take over the lines for military use; equipment is seized for the transportation of troops, munitions, and supplies; and the service essential to the maintenance of commerce and industry is disorganized if not brought to a complete standstill. Revenues fall off, outlays for construction and maintenance are curtailed, and the return to investors is suspended. More serious still is the effect of the activities of the forces of rebellion and disorder. Bridges are destroyed and tracks are torn up to prevent the movement of trains; equipment is seized and buildings arc burned. All varieties of railroad property arc destroyed, sometimes purely for the sake of destruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John H. Coatsworth
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Impact of Railroads on the Economic Development of Mexico, 1877-1910 written by John H. Coatsworth and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Garner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317887050
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Porfirio Diaz written by Paul Garner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.
Author : James Creelman
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book President Di̲az written by James Creelman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalia Priego
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178138438X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfirian Mexico written by Natalia Priego and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground in the historiography of Mexico during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz by subjecting to detailed analysis the traditional belief that the ideology of the intellectual/political elite known as ‘the scientists’ was grounded in the philosophical ideas of Herbert Spencer.
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Author : Mexico. President (1884-1911 : Díaz)
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Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report Presented by Gen. Porfirio Diaz, President of the United Mexican States to His Follow [sic] Countrymen Covering His Administration During the Constitutional Period from the 1st of December, 1900 to the 30th of November, 1904 written by Mexico. President (1884-1911 : Díaz) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian R. Hamnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521852846
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Mexico written by Brian R. Hamnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.
Author : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel)
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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Porfirio Diaz written by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel)
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Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book The Maker of Modern Mexico written by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : José Francisco Godoy
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, the Master Builder of a Great Commonwealth written by José Francisco Godoy and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Licenciado Verdad
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Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Porfirio Díaz and the Furture of Mexico written by Licenciado Verdad and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Easterling
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608461831
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Mexican Revolution written by Stuart Easterling and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!” (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959). The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all? In The Mexican Revolution, Stuart Easterling offers a concise chronicle of events from the fall of the longstanding Díaz regime to Gen. Obregón’s ascent to the presidency. In a comprehensible style, aimed at students and general readers, Easterling sorts through the revolution’s many internal conflicts, and asks whether or not its leaders achieved their goals.
Author : John Kenneth Turner
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Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Barbarous Mexico written by John Kenneth Turner and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.
Author : Alan Knight
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803277700
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (777 download)
Download or read book The Mexican Revolution written by Alan Knight and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive two-volume history of the Mexican Revolution presents a new interpretation of one of the world's most important revolutions. While it reflects the many facets of this complex and far-reaching historical subject it emphasises its fundamentally local, popular and agrarian character and locates it within a more general comparative context.-- Publisher.
