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

• Autore: Weis Robert <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/766475230972; 338.47664752; 338.4766475230972
• Soggetto topico: Bread industry - Mexico - History; Bread - Economic aspects - Mexico - History; Bread - Political aspects - Mexico - History; Bakeries - Mexico - History; Bakers - Political activity - Mexico - History
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico Economic conditions; Mexico Social conditions
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bakers and Basques
• ISBN: 1-283-57117-X; 9786613883629; 0-8263-5147-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813720303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II