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By Margaret Chowning

ISBN-10: 058510509X

ISBN-13: 9780585105093

ISBN-10: 0804734283

ISBN-13: 9780804734288

Unparalleled within the historiography of post-independence Mexico for its blend of wealthy archival aspect and chronological scope, this booklet specializes in the rich women and men of the nation of Michoac?n from the final many years of colonial rule to the 1910 Revolution. The breadth of its documentary base and the sweeping span of time it covers go beyond slender social background to amplify our knowing of the industrial, political, and highbrow background of nineteenth-century Mexico.Though now not basically a examine of improvement or politics, the e-book still indicates strikingly unique solutions to the valuable query approximately Mexico’s first century as a state: to what do we characteristic the disasters of the Mexican financial system and the Mexican political process? between her significant findings, the writer concludes that for Michoac?n, a minimum of, Mexico’s “nineteenth-century melancholy” used to be in truth distinctive monetary collapses—one following the wars of the insurgency and the opposite coming after the Reform of the overdue 1850’s—separated by means of a interval of relative prosperity within the 1840’s and early 1850’s.The writer additional argues that the post-Reform downturn was once skilled another way by way of elites and the center sessions from the post-1810 melancholy, no longer least simply because prosperous landowners have been in a position to carry directly to such a lot in their estate and eventually to forge a at the same time helpful courting with the middle-class liberal politicians who ruled officeholding within the moment 1/2 the 19th century.The author’s view of the Reform additionally departs from traditional knowledge, which has both emphasised its many deficiencies or taken care of it as just one of many episodes of political turmoil that disrupted the financial system and exacerbated an ongoing trend of decline. She unearths that although the Reform surely contributed to the “second” nineteenth-century melancholy within the brief run, even as it will definitely comprehensive a lot of what the liberals had was hoping for: it spread out the provincial (and most likely nationwide) financial system and created area for the upwardly xmobile heart class.This e-book, then, argues for a imaginative and prescient of Mexico’s 19th century during which the Reform is the principal, watershed occasion, not only within the lives of rich humans in Michoac?n or within the background of Mexican liberalism, yet in Mexico’s political and fiscal trajectory seeing that independence.

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Page 4 Map 1. Regions of Michoacán. Page 5 In the southern part of the state was a sparsely populated tierra caliente in which great, often highly capitalized haciendas, mainly devoted to production of sugar, rice, or indigo, dominated the rural landscape. Outside of the irrigable parts of the haciendas, cattle ranching provided income of another sort. Here the social makeup of the population was quintessentially multiracial, with people of African descent, indigenous peoples, mestizos, mulattoes, and poor whites linked in varying degrees to the out-of-region export economy centered on the haciendas.

I found myself not only having to enter into an unresolved debate among economic historians over the long-term effects of the wars for independence, but also having to think through the multiple implications in the political arena of replacing the motifs and metaphors of decay and apathy and decline (which have dominated not only economic history but also political and cultural history) with those of vigor and animation, however fragile and unenduring. I was now forced to ask why many politiciansespecially those associated with varieties of liberalismwere publicly despairing about the state of the economy, even as they and others privately thrived.

Regions of Michoacán 4 2. Route from Mexico City to Valladolid, ca. 1800 16 3. City map of Valladolid, ca. 1800 18 Figures 1. Calzada de Guadalupe and Morelia Aqueduct, 1870 19 2. Dolores Alzúa y Huarte de Gómez 156 3. Cayetano Gómez de Soria 156 4. 1. Itineraries from Mexico City to Valladolid, ca. 1. 1. 1. 1. 6 Corn Production in Michoacán, 1808-1905 318 Page xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In the long and sometimes untidy evolution of this book I have incurred many debts. Research for the dissertation upon which the book is loosely based was supported by generous grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship program.

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