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"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.
Excerpt from The New Regime in Mexico As a result the presidential reign of Porfirio Diaz, cov ering, with the exception of four years, the period from 1876 until 1911, stands in marked contrast to the political instability and financial bankruptcy which characterized Mexico's first half century as an independent nation.' Since the causes for the revolution, which, we trust, definitely came to an end just a few months ago, are to be found in this thir ty-five year period, some general considerations concerning the chief actor and the period as a whole are pertinent. Largely of Indian blood himself - therefore conscious of the political and social incapacities of the Mexican people - and schooled as he was by years of experience in the political up heavals of the past few decades, Porfirio Diaz sensed with remarkable foresight the great need of his country, namely, political stability which he proposed to secure through a strong executive. By the blood and iron policy of a Bis marck, or the Machiavellian policy of an Italian prince, or acting on the theory that every man has his price - by either or all of these methods, it mattered not which - Diaz soon succeeded in bringing order otof chaos, and in establish ing political stability and financial responsibility where kaleidoscopic changes of government and bankruptcy had been the rule theretofore. But in spite of this, once safely in power, Diaz feigned a desire to proceed strictly along the paths of constitutionality; the constitution, instead of being a thing to be set aside or ignored at will, was con veni'ently and legally amended whenever his program so de manded. As a result, Mexico began to recuperate, and, for Zthe first time in their history, Mexicans came to realize that peace and prosperity go hand in hand. Industry, commerce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Challenging the standard view of the Porfirian state as dominated by personalist politics, foreign financial interests, and a disadvantageous export economy, this book argues that beginning in the 1890s, the Mexican government adopted a coherent set of economic policies explicitly designed to foster Mexican industry, notably manufacturing.
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In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels over is the new availability of cheap and useful goods. Steven Bunker’s study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that “incredible things are happening in this world.” In urban areas, and especially Mexico City, being a consumer increasingly defined what it meant to be Mexican. In an effort to reconstruct everyday life in Porfirian Mexico, Bunker surveys the institutions and discourses of consumption and explores how individuals and groups used the goods, practices, and spaces of urban consumer culture to construct meaning and identities in the rapidly evolving social and physical landscape of the capital city and beyond. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a colorful walking tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City. Emphasizing the widespread participation in this consumer culture, Bunker’s work overturns conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture.
This comprehensive two-volume history of the Mexican Revolution presents a new interpretation of one of the world's most important revolutions. While it reflects the many facets of this complex and far-reaching historical subject it emphasises its fundamentally local, popular and agrarian character and locates it within a more general comparative context.-- Publisher.