...This chapter covers the demographic and economic changes that swept over South Texas and northern Mexico during the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. Growing landlessness and reliance on wage labor created massive demographic upheaval and disturbed previously isolated regions and populations...

...This book analyzes production and modernity in pre-revolutionary Mexico, focusing specifically on the relationship between labour, race, and the state in Chiapas during the Porfiriato. The thirty-five-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911) was a key period in the history of modern Mexico...

...This chapter analyzes the institution of debt peonage in Chiapas during the Porfiriato. The first section examines Porfirian debates regarding the relationship between debt peonage, slavery, and market development in Chiapas. The second section addresses the economics and economic rationality...

... the Mexican independence (1821) to the Porfiriato (1876–1911). While emphasizing the relationship between space and bodies, the chapter foregrounds two concepts: spatial mestizaje and ambivalence toward mestizaje and indigeneity. Spatial mestizaje signals how...

... Mesoamerican indigenous bodies and cultures in integrative choreographies of mestizo modernity, including in print media and visual arts. A positivist Darwinian scientism informed the concurrent development of expressive cultures and the social sciences during the Porfiriato. ³⁷ Scientific...

...This chapter examines how the work of Ignacio Altamirano, specifically his great bandit novel El Zarco, deals with the militarization of space in the formation of the mestizo state. During the Porfiriato, which refers to the middle years of Porfirio Díaz administration’s political...

... to crown the Count the new Aztec Emperor, Moctezuma III. ¹ Mexico Montezuma III Carlos María Bustamante private property odious sovereign default Napoleon III Manuel Payno Porfiriato Mexican Revolution This chapter studies the uses of international law in the Mexican constitutional...

... collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated. In doing so, it arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force. Spanning the Porfiriato period from 1867 to 1910, the text...

...–23 had little in common with that of the Porfiriato. Carranza Venustiano Constitution of 1917 labor law labor regime Obregón Alvaro state labor codes Villa Francisco Pancho Zapata Emiliano factories and mills trade unions Centro Industrial Mexicano CIM empleados Mexico City Orizaba...

...This chapter focuses on women and Catholic politics in the Porfiriato. It discusses lay associations' key roles in promoting the church's political projects during the Porfiriato, such as religious education, the Catholic press, and the visibility of Catholic practice. The church's main political...

... and the Porfiriato. 1. Jaime E. Rodríguez O. , “Nosotros somos ahora los verdaderos españoles”: La transición de Nueva España de un reino de la Monarquía Española a la República Federal de México, 1808–1824, 2 vols. (Zamora and México, D.F.: El Colegio de Michoacán and Instituto Mora...

...This chapter introduces the reader to the socio-ideological environment of the Porfiriato - as the 27 years of Diaz’s uninterrupted dictatorshp (1884-1911 is known - and the years immediately before. This discussion establishes the context for the popularity in intellectual and elite circles...

..., and railroad construction that fueled migratory patterns. Town-based networks provided the transportation, capital, and information migrants needed to travel north. labor recruitment Mexican Revolution Pérez Manuel Díaz Porfirio hacendados Mexican railroads Porfiriato Yaqui Mexican Central Railway...

... Development Indicators (WDI) (using per capita GDP in constant US$). a 1913. Chapter 1 summarizes the main theses of the book and provides an overview of the contents of each of its chapters. It argues that the episodes of rapid economic growth (during the Porfiriato and postwar...

... during the Porfiriato Source: Based on El Colegio de México ( 1960 ), Estadísticas Económicas del Porfiriato. Figure 3.4 Real minimum wages during the Porfiriato (Minimum daily wage, 1900 pesos) Source: Based on El Colegio de México ( 1960...

... and the cabaretera subgenre, concentrating on the genre’s associations with sexuality, modernity, and gender. Since the Porfiriato, the prostitute functioned as a deeply controversial figure and symbol of womanhood in popular culture, perceived at once as a social vice and as an exploited “necessary evil...

... Mexico Mormon Church Porfiriato 1876–1911 Protestantism in Mexico Revolution of Tuxtepec 1876 Atlautla Mexico Mexico Barrera Gabina Bautista Bartolo Bautista José de la Luz Cuautla Morelos Mexico ejidos hacendados Hacienda de Guadalupe Mexico Mexico Improvement Era The peasant uprisings...

...The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, this book investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its...

...One of the less obvious mediums through which the Mexican Porfiriato constructed and disseminated an image of nation during the late nineteenth century was through statistical representation. This chapter explores how the universal vocabulary of statistics was conjugated within national boundaries...

... burial reforms Veracruz city and intendancy Voekel Pamela Cuautitlán phlebotomists print and print culture Scott James 11 smallpox Zacatecas Alemán Valdés Miguel Christ images of Guadalupe 19 Michoacán nurses sermons science religion priest Republic Porfiriato During the presidency...