In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process, they engage major questions about the revolution. How did the revolutionary process and its aftermath modernize the nation's economy and political system and transform the lives of ordinary Mexicans? Rather than conceiving the revolution as either the culminating popular struggle of Mexico's history or the triumph of a new (not so revolutionary) state over the people, Joseph and Buchenau examine the textured process through which state and society shaped each other. The result is a lively history of Mexico's "long twentieth century," from Porfirio Díaz's modernizing dictatorship to the neoliberalism of the present day.

Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

History

Buchenau, Jürgen

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Americas

Duke University Press Books

The history of Casa Boker, one of the first department stores in Mexico City, and its German owners provides important insights into Mexican and immigration history. Often called "the Sears of Mexico," Casa Boker has become over the past 140 years one of Mexico's foremost wholesalers, working closely with U.S. and European exporters and eventually selling 40,000 different products across the republic, including sewing machines, typewriters, tools, cutlery, and even insurance. 
Like Mexico itself, Casa Boker has survived various economic development strategies, political changes, the rise of U.S. influence and consumer culture, and the conflicted relationship between Mexicans and foreigners. Casa Boker thrived as a Mexican business while its owners clung to their German identity, supporting the Germans in both world wars. Today, the family speaks German but considers itself Mexican. 
Buchenau's study transcends the categories of local vs. foreign and insider vs. outsider by demonstrating that one family could be commercial insiders and, at the same time, cultural outsiders. Because the Bokers saw themselves as entrepreneurs first and Germans second, Buchenau suggests that transnational theory, a framework previously used to illustrate the fluidity of national identity in poor immigrants, is the best way of describing this and other elite families of foreign origin.

Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present

University of New Mexico Press

The history of Casa Boker, one of the first department stores in Mexico City, and its German owners provides important insights into Mexican and immigration history. Often called "the Sears of Mexico," Casa Boker has become over the past 140 years one of Mexico's foremost wholesalers, working closely with U.S. and European exporters and eventually selling 40,000 different products across the republic, including sewing machines, typewriters, tools, cutlery, and even insurance.
Like Mexico itself, Casa Boker has survived various economic development strategies, political changes, the rise of U.S. influence and consumer culture, and the conflicted relationship between Mexicans and foreigners. Casa Boker thrived as a Mexican business while its owners clung to their German identity, supporting the Germans in both world wars. Today, the family speaks German but considers itself Mexican.
Buchenau's study transcends the categories of local vs. foreign and insider vs. outsider by demonstrating that one family could be commercial insiders and, at the same time, cultural outsiders. Because the Bokers saw themselves as entrepreneurs first and Germans second, Buchenau suggests that transnational theory, a framework previously used to illustrate the fluidity of national identity in poor immigrants, is the best way of describing this and other elite families of foreign origin.

Business & Money

Biography & History

No previous work has covered the web of important players, places, and events that have shaped the history of the United States’ relations with its neighbors to the south. From the Monroe Doctrine through today’s tensions with Latin America’s new leftist governments, this history is rich in case studies of diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation and contentiousness. Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations is a comprehensive, three-volume, A-to-Z reference featuring more than 800 entries detailing the political, economic, and military interconnections between the United States and the countries of Latin America, including Mexico and the nations in Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Entries cover: <ul>
<li>Each country and its relationship with the United States</li> <li>Key politicians, diplomats, and revolutionaries in each country </li> <li>Wars, conflicts, and other events </li> <li>Policies and treaties</li> <li>Organizations central to the political and diplomatic history of the western hemisphere</li> </ul>
Key topics covered include: <ul>
<li>Coups and terrorist organizations </li> <li>U.S. military interventions in the Caribbean </li> <li>Mexican-American War </li> <li>The Cold War, communism, and dictators </li> <li>The war on drugs in Latin America </li> <li>Panama Canal </li> <li>Embargo on Cuba </li> <li>Pan-Americanism and Inter-American conferences </li> <li>The role of commodities like coffee, bananas, copper, and oil </li> <li>"Big Stick" and Good Neighbor policies </li> <li>Impact of religion in U.S.-Latin American relations </li> <li>Neoliberal economic development model </li> <li>U.S. Presidents from John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama </li> <li>Latin American leaders from Simon Bolivar to Hugo Chavez</li> </ul>
With expansive coverage of more than 200 years of important and fascinating events, this new work will serve as an important addition to the collections of academic, public, and school libraries serving students and researchers interested in U.S. history and diplomacy, Latin American studies, international relations, and current events.

Encyclopedia of U.S. - Latin American Relations

Reference

Leonard, Thomas M.

Mount, Graeme

Longley, Rodney

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

CQ Press

Our new brief text highlights Mexico's stunning geographical, ethnic, and social diversity. In the sixteenth century, diseases brought by the Spanish conquerors wiped out almost 90 per cent of the indigenous population. Since then, Mexico - first as a colony of Spain and, after 1821, as an independent nation - has exported thousands of tons of silver, affecting currencies and prices as far away as China and India. In the century following independence, Mexico was invaded six times by three different European nations (Britain, France, and Spain) as well as the United States, the latter conflict resulting in the loss of half of Mexico's territory. More recently, Mexico has played an ever more important part in the world economy. Focused primarily on the period since independence in 1821, this brief text effectively summarizes Mexico's rich history, delineating some of the major processes at the national level and hinting at regional and local counter-currents.

Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico

Wiley/Blackwell

The Last Caudillo: Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution

The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America.  Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past Represents the most analytical and up-to-date study of caudillo/military strongman rule Sheds new light on the networks and discourse practices that support rulers such as the Castros in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and the emergence of modern Mexico Offers new insights into the role of leadership, the nature of revolution, and the complex forces that helped shape modern Mexico

The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America. <ul>
<li>Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past</li> <li>Represents the most analytical and up-to-date study of caudillo/military strongman rule</li> <li>Sheds new light on the networks and discourse practices that support rulers such as the Castros in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and the emergence of modern Mexico</li> <li>Offers new insights into the role of leadership, the nature of revolution, and the complex forces that helped shape modern Mexico</li> </ul>

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Repression (Confluencias)

University Of Nebraska Press

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Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present

Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present

Encyclopedia of U.S. - Latin American Relations

Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico

The Last Caudillo: Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution

The Last Caudillo: Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution

The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Repression (Confluencias)

The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Repression (Confluencias)