Mexico In The 1940s

Author : Stephen R. Niblo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0842027955

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Mexico in the 1940s by Stephen R. Niblo Pdf

This title examines Mexican politics in the wake of Cardenismo, and the dawn of Miguel Aleman's presidency. This new book focuses on the decade of the 1940s, and analyzes Alcmanismo into the early years of the 1950s. Based upon a decade of intensive investigation, it is the first broad and substantial study of the political life of the Mexican nation during this period, thus opening a new era to historical investigation. Analytical yet lively, mixing political and cultural history, Mexico in the 1940s captures the humor, passion, and significance of Mexico during the World War II and post-war years when Mexicans entered the era called "the miracle" because of the nation's economic growth and political stability. Niblo develops the case that the Mexico of today -- politically and executively centralized, stressing business and industry, corrupt, ignoring the needs of the majority of the population -- has its roots in the decade and a half after 1940. Finally, Mexico in the 1940s offers a unique interpretation of Mexican domestic politics in this period, including an explanation of how political leaders were able to reverse the course of the Mexican Revolution in the 1940s; an original interpretation of corruption in Mexican political life, a phenomenon that did not end in the 1940s; and an analysis of the relationship between the U.S. media interests, the Mexican state and the Mexican media companies that still dominate mass communication today.

Author : Robert Chao Romero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816508198

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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 by Robert Chao Romero Pdf

An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. The Chinese in Mexico provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era. Robert Romero argues that Chinese immigrants turned to Mexico as a new land of economic opportunity after the passage of the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As a consequence of this legislation, Romero claims, Chinese immigrants journeyed to Mexico in order to gain illicit entry into the United States and in search of employment opportunities within Mexico's developing economy. Romero details the development, after 1882, of the "Chinese transnational commercial orbit," a network encompassing China, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, shaped and traveled by entrepreneurial Chinese pursuing commercial opportunities in human smuggling, labor contracting, wholesale merchandising, and small-scale trade. Romero's study is based on a wide array of Mexican and U.S. archival sources. It draws from such quantitative and qualitative sources as oral histories, census records, consular reports, INS interviews, and legal documents. Two sources, used for the first time in this kind of study, provide a comprehensive sociological and historical window into the lives of Chinese immigrants in Mexico during these years: the Chinese Exclusion Act case files of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the 1930 Mexican municipal census manuscripts. From these documents, Romero crafts a vividly personal and compelling story of individual lives caught in an extensive network of early transnationalism.

Author : Susan M. Gauss
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271074450

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Made in Mexico by Susan M. Gauss Pdf

The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there are those who believe that state-led development might be worth trying again. Susan Gauss’s study of the process by which Mexico transformed from a largely agrarian society into an urban, industrialized one in the two decades following the end of the Revolution is especially timely and may have lessons to offer to policy makers today. The image of a strong, centralized corporatist state led by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) from the 1940s conceals what was actually a prolonged, messy process of debate and negotiation among the postrevolutionary state, labor, and regionally based industrial elites to define the nationalist project. Made in Mexico focuses on the distinctive nature of what happened in the four regions studied in detail: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla. It shows how industrialism enabled recalcitrant elites to maintain a regionally grounded preserve of local authority outside of formal ruling-party institutions, balancing the tensions among centralization, consolidation of growth, and Mexico’s deep legacies of regional authority.

Author : Thomas Rath
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469608358

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Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 by Thomas Rath Pdf

At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarization was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume. Civilian governments deployed troops as a police force, often aimed at political suppression, while officers meddled in provincial politics, engaged in corruption, and crafted official history, all against a backdrop of sustained popular protest and debate. Using newly available materials from military, intelligence, and diplomatic archives, Rath weaves together an analysis of national and regional politics, military education, conscription, veteran policy, and popular protest. In doing so, he challenges dominant interpretations of successful, top-down demilitarization and questions the image of the post-1940 PRI regime as strong, stable, and legitimate. Rath also shows how the army's suppression of students and guerrillas in the 1960s and 1970s and the more recent militarization of policing have long roots in Mexican history.

Author : Brian R. Hamnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521852845

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A Concise History of Mexico by Brian R. Hamnett Pdf

This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.

Author : Benjamin T. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 146963709X

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The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976 by Benjamin T. Smith Pdf

Who read what?: the rise of newspaper readership in Mexico, 1940?1976 -- How to control the press: rules of the game, the government publicity machine, and financial incentives -- The year Mexico stopped laughing: the press, satire, and censorship in Mexico City -- From Catholic schoolboy to guerrilla: Mario Méndez and the radical press -- How to control the press (badly): censorship and regional newspapers -- The real Artemio Cruz: the press baron, gangster journalism, and the regional press -- The taxi driver: civil society, journalism, and Oaxaca's El Chapulín -- The singer: civil society, radicalism, and acción in Chihuahua

Author : Michael J. Gonzales
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826327802

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The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 by Michael J. Gonzales Pdf

Examines Mexican politics and government from the dictatorship of General Porfirio Dâiaz to the presidency of General Lâazaro Câardenas.

Author : Richard Griswold del Castillo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292779136

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World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights by Richard Griswold del Castillo Pdf

This historical study examines how Mexican American experiences during WWII galvanized the community’s struggle for civil rights. World War II marked a turning point for Mexican Americans that fundamentally changed their relationship to US society at large. The experiences of fighting alongside white Americans in the military, as well as working in factory jobs for wages equal to those of Anglo workers, made Mexican Americans less willing to tolerate the second-class citizenship that had been their lot before the war. Having proven their loyalty and “Americanness” during World War II, Mexican Americans began to demand the civil rights they deserved. In this book, Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard Steele investigate how the wartime experiences of Mexican Americans helped forge their civil rights consciousness and how the US government responded. The authors demonstrate, for example, that the US government “discovered” Mexican Americans during World War II and began addressing some of their problems as a way of ensuring their willingness to support the war effort. The book concludes with a selection of key essays and historical documents from the World War II period that provide a first-person perspective of Mexican American civil rights struggles.

Author : Anna Macias
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000353832

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Against All Odds by Anna Macias Pdf

Author : Mary K. Vaughan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0816516766

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Cultural Politics in Revolution by Mary K. Vaughan Pdf

"Innovative study of the cultural legacy of the Mexican Revolution, using the story of rural schools. Focuses on Puebla and Sonora and the attempt by the central government to implement socialist education and to advance its nationalist agenda. Stresses the importance of negotiation among national and local leaders, teachers and peasants"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Author : Theodore W. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108730310

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Finding Afro-Mexico by Theodore W. Cohen Pdf

In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the Mexican, African American, and Cuban writers, poets, anthropologists, artists, composers, historians, and archaeologists who integrated Mexican history, culture, and society into the African Diaspora after the Revolution of 1910. Theodore W. Cohen persuasively shows how these intellectuals rejected the nineteenth-century racial paradigms that heralded black disappearance when they made blackness visible first in Mexican culture and then in post-revolutionary society. Drawing from more than twenty different archives across the Americas, this cultural and intellectual history of black visibility, invisibility, and community-formation questions the racial, cultural, and political dimensions of Mexican history and Afro-diasporic thought.

Author : María Emilia Paz Salinas
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0271016663

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Strategy, Security, and Spies by María Emilia Paz Salinas Pdf

Faced with the possibility of being drawn into a war on several fronts, the United States sought to win Mexican support for a new strategy of Hemispheric Security, based on defense collaboration by governments throughout the Americas. U.S. leaders were concerned that Mexico might become a base for enemy operations, a scenario that, given the presence of pro-Axis lobbies in Mexico and the rumored fraternization between Mexico and Germany in World War I, seemed far from implausible in 1939&–41. Strategy, Security, and Spies tells the fascinating story of U.S. relations with Mexico during the war years, involving everything from spies and internal bureaucratic struggles in both countries to all sorts of diplomatic maneuverings. Although its focus is on the interactions of the two countries, relative to the threat posed by the Axis powers, a valuable feature of the study is to show how Mexico itself evolved politically in crucial ways during this period, always trying to maintain the delicate balance between the divisive force of Mexican nationalism and the countervailing force of economic dependency and security self-interest.

Author : Mary Kay Vaughan,Stephen Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387527

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The Eagle and the Virgin by Mary Kay Vaughan,Stephen Lewis Pdf

When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. The Eagle and the Virgin examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940. Contributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully. Contributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, María Teresa Fernández, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. López, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velázquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala

Author : Friedrich Engelbert Schuler
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0826321607

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Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt by Friedrich Engelbert Schuler Pdf

Mexico's relationship with the world during the 1930s is revealed as a fascinating series of calculated responses to domestic political changes and international economic shifts.

Author : Nichole Sanders
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271048871

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Gender and Welfare in Mexico by Nichole Sanders Pdf

"Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s"--Provided by publisher.