Michael K. Bess

Routes of Compromise (eBook, PDF)

Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952

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Produktbeschreibung

In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local, national, and transnational levels, helped determine how Mexico would build and finance its roadways. While Veracruz offered a radical model for regional construction that empowered agrarian communities, national consensus would solidify around policies championed by Nuevo León's political and commercial elites. Bess shows that no single political figure or central agency dominated the process of determining Mexico's road-building policies. Instead, provincial road-building efforts highlight the contingent nature of power and state formation in midcentury Mexico.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496204035
• Artikelnr.: 55972425

Autorenporträt

Michael K. Bess teaches history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures    
Acknowledgments    
Abbreviations    
Introduction: Revolutionary Roads    
Chapter 1: “A Good Road . . . Brings Life to All of the Towns It Passes”:
The Fight for a National and Public Road-Building Program    
Chapter 2: “Everyone Was Ready to Do Their Part”: Road Politics and State
Bureaucracies Take Shape in Nuevo León and Veracruz    
Chapter 3: “So That These Problems May Be Placed in the Hand of the
President”: Roads and Motor Travel under Cardenismo    
Chapter 4: “We March with Mexico for Liberty!”: Road Building in Wartime  
 
Chapter 5: “Those Who Do Not Look Forward Are Left Behind”: Alemanismo’s
Road to Prosperity    
Chapter 6: Charting the Contours: State Power in Mexico’s Road-Building
Efforts    
Appendix A: Comparing the Real Cost of Federal and State Spending on
Roads    
Appendix B: Comparing the Budgets for Program for Cooperation on Roads and
the Comisión Nacional de Caminos Vecinales    
Appendix C: Minimum Wages in Nuevo León and Veracruz for Road Workers    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index