Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico Men, Women and War

Name: Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico Men, Women and War
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ISBN: 9780826321718

ISBN-10: 0826321712

ISBN-13: 9780826321718

Edition: 2000

Authors: Mark Wasserman

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In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter and the elites desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy. The emphasis in this book is on the struggle of the common people to retain control over their everyday lives. Concerns central to village life were the appointment of police officials, imposition of taxes on Indians, the trustworthiness of local priests, and changes in land ownership. Communities often followed their leaders into one political camp or another and even into war out of loyalty. During wartime, women acted as the supply, transportation,…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 4/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.01" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.836

Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
The Age of Troubles
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna	p. 15
Timeline	p. 21
Everyday Life, 1821-46: Tradition and Turmoil	p. 22
The Politics of Disorder, 1821-45	p. 45
The Origins of Underdevelopment	p. 61
The Disastrous War	p. 74
The Age of Civil Wars
Benito Juarez	p. 91
Timeline	p. 98
Politics and Economy in Civil War, 1848-61	p. 99
Foreign Intervention and Reconstruction, 1861-67	p. 112
Everyday Life, 1849-76: The Impact of War and Reform	p. 133
The Age of Order and Progress
Porfirio Diaz	p. 159
Timeline	p. 167
The Economy of Progress	p. 168
Everyday Life, 1877-1910: The Onslaught of Change	p. 182
The Politics of Order, 1877-1910	p. 209
Epilogue	p. 229
Selected Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 239
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