Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911 - Couverture rigide

Schell Jr., William

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ISBN 10 : 0842028382 ISBN 13 : 9780842028387

Editeur : Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

In this original and compelling book book, William Schell Jr. examines the largest foreign colony in Mexico during the reign of Porfirio Daz, from 1876 to 1911. Expatriate Americans constituted the greatest number of technicians, technocrats, consultants, engineers, agronomists, mining specialists, railroad experts, and venture capitalists in Mexico. The influence of these integral outsiders extended far beyond economics and Porfirian efforts to manage the booming era of Mexican modernization. Marriages between Americans and Mexican society women and membership in such organizations as Masonic brotherhoods brought the foreigners into the most important social circles. Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876D1911, contains a colorful history of the Porfiriato through the lens of American participation, including carefully wrought descriptions of expatriate Americans. These individual biographies make the narrative more human and interesting, allowing Schell to move beyond the simplistic view of weak, greedy Mexican elites conspiring with powerful, greedy foreign capitalists to amass great wealth while impoverishing the Mexican masses and creating economic underdevelopment. Basing his comments on meticulous research, Schell points out that U.S. influence was hardly a one-way street and that the interaction between U.S. citizens and Mexicans was a complex system of cultural negotiations. He demonstrates convincingly that, while insinuating themselves into Mexican society, Americans thought that they were changing Mexico, and, in so doing, changed themselves. As Schell states, Ultimately, then, it may be said that the Porfirian regime got the form of hegemony it sought, and Washington took the sort of hegemony it could get.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Schell Jr. is professor of history at Murray State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0842028382
• ISBN 13: 9780842028387
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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• Personne responsable: non disponible