Mexican Political Biographies 1884 1934

Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292756038

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Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934 by Roderic Ai Camp Pdf

Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks not only to provide accurate biographical information about each entry but also, where possible and appropriate, to connect these politicians to more recent leadership generations. Thus, Mexican Political Biographies, 1884-1934 not only is a useful historical source but also provides additional information on the family backgrounds of many contemporary figures. The work includes those figures who have held specific posts at the national level or who have served as state governors. Each biographical entry contains the following information: date of birth, birthplace, education, elective political office, political party positions, appointive governmental posts at all levels, group activities, nongovernmental positions and professions, relatives, mentors and important friends, military experience, unusual career activities, and published biographical sources. Another unique feature of the directory is appendixes with complete lists of the names and dates of cabinet members, supreme court justices, senators, deputies, selected ambassadors, and party leaders.

Author : Roderic A. Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001880797

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Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1981 by Roderic A. Camp Pdf

Author : Roderic A. Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816505810

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Mexican Political Biographies by Roderic A. Camp Pdf

Author : Roderic A. Camp,William Henderson Kelly
Publisher : Tucson : University of Arizona Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018734439

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Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1975 by Roderic A. Camp,William Henderson Kelly Pdf

More than 700 accurate and complete biographies of significant persons, living and dead, who have been prominent in the political system since 1935. Includes comments - favorable and unfavorable - from published and unpublished sources. Detailed bibliographic essay on sources cited and other valuable Mexican works.

Author : Jonathan C. Brown,Alan Knight
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780292791725

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The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century by Jonathan C. Brown,Alan Knight Pdf

Mexico's petroleum industry has come to symbolize the very sovereignty of the nation itself. Politicians criticize Pemex, the national oil company, at their peril, and President Salinas de Gortari has made clear that the free trade negotiations between Mexico and the United States will not affect Pemex's basic status as a public enterprise. How and why did the petroleum industry gain such prominence and, some might say, immunity within Mexico's political economy? The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century, edited by Jonathan C. Brown and Alan Knight, seeks to explain the impact of the oil sector on the nation's economic, political, and social development. The book is a multinational effort—one author is Australian, two British, three North American, and five Mexican. Each contributing scholar has researched and written extensively about Mexico and its oil industry.

Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311499377

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Mexican Political Biographies by Roderic Ai Camp Pdf

Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199780803

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The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico by Roderic Ai Camp Pdf

The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico is a broad analysis of Mexico's changing leadership over the past eight decades, stretching from its pre-democratic era (1935-1988), to its democratic transition (1988-2000) to its democratic period (2000-the present). In it, Roderic Camp, one of the most distinguished scholars of Mexican politics, seeks to answer two questions: 1) how has Mexican political leadership evolved since the 1930s and in what ways, beyond ideology, has the shift from a semi-authoritarian, one-party system to a democratic, electoral system altered the country's leadership? and 2) which aspects of Mexican leadership have been most affected by this shift in political models and when and why did the changes in leadership occur? Rather than viewing Mexico's current government as a true democracy, Camp sees it as undergoing a process of consolidation, under which the competitive electoral process has resulted in a system of governing institutions supported by the majority of citizens and significant strides toward plurality. Accordingly, he looks at the relationship between the decentralization of political power and the changing characteristics, experiences and paths to power of national leaders. The book, which represents four decades of Camp's work, is based upon a detailed study of 3000 politicians from the 1930s through the present, incorporating regional media accounts and Camp's own interviews with Mexican presidents, cabinet members, assistant secretaries, senators, governors, and party presidents.

Author : Andrew Paxman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190455767

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Jenkins of Mexico by Andrew Paxman Pdf

In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country energized by industrialization and revolutionary change. In Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman presents the first biography of this larger-than-life personality. When the decade-long Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910, Jenkins preyed on patrician property owners and bought up substantial real estate. He suffered a scare with a firing squad and then a kidnapping by rebels, an episode that almost triggered a US invasion. After the war he owned textile mills, developed Mexico's most productive sugar plantation, and helped finance the rise of a major political family, the Ávila Camachos. During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s-50s, he lorded over the film industry with his movie theater monopoly and key role in production. By means of Mexico's first major hostile takeover, he bought the country's second-largest bank. Reputed as an exploiter of workers, a puppet-master of politicians, and Mexico's wealthiest industrialist, Jenkins was the gringo that Mexicans loved to loathe. After his wife's death, he embraced philanthropy and willed his entire fortune to a foundation named for her, which co-founded two prestigious universities and funded projects to improve the lives of the poor in his adopted country. Using interviews with Jenkins' descendants, family papers, and archives in Puebla, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Washington, Jenkins of Mexico tells a contradictory tale of entrepreneurship and monopoly, fearless individualism and cozy deals with power-brokers, embrace of US-style capitalism and political anti-Americanism, and Mexico's transformation from semi-feudal society to emerging economic power.

Author : Robert Carriedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UCSD:31822018686618

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Military Professionalism and Political Influence by Robert Carriedo Pdf

Author : Roderic A. Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195073003

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Generals in the Palacio by Roderic A. Camp Pdf

While there is considerable literature on civilian-military relations worldwide, there is as yet no study of the Mexican military. Despite their intense desire to remain unexamined, Camp's portrait of the Mexican military from 1946 to 1990 takes us inside their world to examine their values, relationships, backgrounds, education, and promotion patterns, and considers these findings in the context of Mexican society and politics. Camp provides fresh empirical data for testing claims concerning civil-military relations worldwide.

Author : Susie S. Porter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816551453

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Working Women in Mexico City by Susie S. Porter Pdf

The years from the Porfiriato to the post-Revolutionary regimes were a time of rising industrialism in Mexico that dramatically affected the lives of workers. Much of what we know about their experience is based on the histories of male workers; now Susie Porter takes a new look at industrialization in Mexico that focuses on women wage earners across the work force, from factory workers to street vendors. Working Women in Mexico City offers a new look at this transitional era to reveal that industrialization, in some ways more than revolution, brought about changes in the daily lives of Mexican women. Industrialization brought women into new jobs, prompting new public discussion of the moral implications of their work. Drawing on a wealth of material, from petitions of working women to government factory inspection reports, Porter shows how a shifting cultural understanding of working women informed labor relations, social legislation, government institutions, and ultimately the construction of female citizenship. At the beginning of this period, women worked primarily in the female-dominated cigarette and clothing factories, which were thought of as conducive to protecting feminine morality, but by 1930 they worked in a wide variety of industries. Yet material conditions transformed more rapidly than cultural understandings of working women, and although the nation's political climate changed, much about women's experiences as industrial workers and street vendors remained the same. As Porter shows, by the close of this period women's responsibilities and rights of citizenship—such as the right to work, organize, and participate in public debate—were contingent upon class-informed notions of female sexual morality and domesticity. Although much scholarship has treated Mexican women's history, little has focused on this critical phase of industrialization and even less on the circumstances of the tortilleras or market women. By tracing the ways in which material conditions and public discourse about morality affected working women, Porter's work sheds new light on their lives and poses important questions for understanding social stratification in Mexican history.

Author : Teresa Van Hoy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461700319

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A Social History of Mexico's Railroads by Teresa Van Hoy Pdf

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 : Hillel David Soifer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107107878

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State Building in Latin America by Hillel David Soifer Pdf

State Building in Latin America explores why some countries in the region developed effective governance, while others did not. The argument focuses on political ideas, economic geography, public administration, to account for the development of public primary education, taxation, and military mobilization in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199703623

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The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics by Roderic Ai Camp Pdf

Since achieving independence from Spain and establishing its first constitution in 1824, Mexico has experienced numerous political upheavals. The country's long and turbulent journey toward democratic, representative government has been marked by a tension between centralized, autocratic governments (historically depicted as a legacy of colonial institutions) and federalist structures. The years since Mexico's independence have seen a major violent social revolution, years of authoritarian rule, and, finally, in the past two decades, the introduction of a fair and democratic electoral process. Over the course of the thirty-one essays in The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics some of the world's leading scholars of Mexico will provide a comprehensive view of the remarkable transformation of the nation's political system to a democratic model. In turn they will assess the most influential institutions, actors, policies and issues in its current evolution toward democratic consolidation. Following an introduction by Roderic Ai Camp, sections will explore the current state of Mexico's political development; transformative political institutions; the changing roles of the military, big business, organized labor, and the national political elite; new political actors including the news media, indigenous movements, women, and drug traffickers; electoral politics; demographics and political attitudes; and policy issues.

Author : Emilio Kourí
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804739390

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A Pueblo Divided by Emilio Kourí Pdf

This book is a history of the conflict-ridden privatization of communal land in the pueblo of Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the second half of the 19th century.