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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461966703321

Autore

Weis Robert <1971->

Titolo

Bakers and Basques [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of bread in Mexico / / Robert Weis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-57117-X

9786613883629

0-8263-5147-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/766475230972

338.47664752

338.4766475230972

Soggetti

Bread industry - Mexico - History

Bread - Economic aspects - Mexico - History

Bread - Political aspects - Mexico - History

Bakeries - Mexico - History

Bakers - Political activity - Mexico - History

Electronic books.

Mexico Economic conditions

Mexico Social conditions

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

"Zelo y desvelo" : the bread monopoly and late colonial market reforms -- "A system that offends the hands of brothers" : small bakers and the free market in independent Mexico -- "An uncle in America" : chain migration and the Spanish monopoly -- "Dough kneaded with blood" -- "We have no bread" : hunger, opportunity, and war -- The bakers' revolution -- Unionists, tlalchicholes, and canasteros.

Sommario/riassunto

More than a book about bread, Bakers and Basques places food and labor at the center of the upheavals in Mexican history from independence to the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.