"Highly original work places the growth of an important state in the national and, at the same time, familial environment. Argues that the Reform must be seen i

Facing financial chaos, Porfirio Diaz’s strategy in the 1880s was to create a bank with a legal monopoly over lending to the government and to enforce elites�

Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques

Not since the early nineteenth century, when California was still part of Mexico, have there been such close ties between Mexico and its former northern territo

This is a study of the important but little-understood role of peasants in the formation of the Mexican national state--from the end of the colonial era to the