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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460208503321

Autore

Wasserman Mark <1946->

Titolo

Pesos and politics : business, elites, foreigners, and government in Mexico, 1854-1940 / / Mark Wasserman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8047-9521-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

322/.3097209034

Soggetti

Industrial policy - Mexico - History

Businesspeople - Mexico - History

Elite (Social sciences) - Mexico - History

Investments, Foreign - Mexico - History

Business enterprises, Foreign - Mexico - History

Electronic books.

Mexico Politics and government 1867-1910

Mexico Politics and government 1910-1946

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- One. Elites, foreigners, and government in Mexico, 1877–1940 -- Two. Mexican entrepreneurs -- Three. Mexico versus the seven kings: the railroad consolidation, 1902–1910 -- Four. Foreign landowners -- Five. The corralitos company -- Six. Foreign mining entrepreneurs -- Seven. The American smelting and refining company in mexico, 1890–1940 -- Eight. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship between business and politics is crucial to understanding Mexican history, and Pesos and Politics explores this relationship from the mid-nineteenth century dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz through the Mexican Revolution (1876-1940). Historian Mark Wasserman argues that throughout this era, over the course of successive regimes, there was an evolving enterprise system that had to balance the interests of the Mexican national elite, state and local



governments, large foreign corporations, and individual foreign entrepreneurs. During and after the Revolution these groups were joine