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Bakers and Basques A Social History of Bread in Mexico

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ISBN-10: 0826351468

ISBN-13: 9780826351463

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert Weis

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Mexico City’s colorfulpanaderías(bakeries) have long been vital neighborhood institutions. They were also crucial sites where labor, subsistence, and politics collided. From the 1880s well into the twentieth century, Basque immigrants dominated the bread trade, to the detriment of small Mexican bakers. By taking us inside the panadería, into the heart of bread strikes, and through government halls, Robert Weis reveals why authorities and organized workers supported the so-called Spanish monopoly in ways that countered the promises of law and ideology. He tells the gritty story of how class struggle and the politics of food shaped the state and the market. More than a book about…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 9/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.02" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Robert Weis is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of psychology at Denison University, aselective liberal arts college near Columbus, Ohio. He earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Chicago anda Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northern Illinois University. He completed his predoctoral and postdoctoral workin clinical child and pediatric psychology at Columbus Children's Hospital (Ohio) and Portage County Mental HealthCenter (Wisconsin). At Denison, he teaches courses in introductory psychology, research methods and statistics,abnormal psychology, and assessment and psychotherapy. He also supervises an undergraduate internship coursein applied psychology.…    

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index