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| Author | : Edward Beatty |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2015-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520284895 |
"Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Preliminary page.
| Author | : Edward Beatty |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2015-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520960556 |
In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies—the sewing machine, a glass bottle–blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining—Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to integrate new machines and products, difficulties in assimilating the skills required to use emerging technologies resulted in a persistent dependence on international expertise.
| Author | : Cathryn L. Thorup |
| Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1987-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780887386633 |
Rapid technological advance is fast changing the nature of the relationship between the industrial countries and the advanced developing countries. This volume explores the meanings of this change close to home-as it affects the U.S.-Mexican relationship. What is the impact of the new technology on trade, investment, and labor flows between the United States and Mexico? Will development of a stronger Mexican industrial sector constitute an aid or a threat to specific U.S. industries? While demand for the middle-technology goods that countries such as Mexico can produce is growing in the United States, the debt crisis and the high dollar make procuring the high-technology capital goods necessary for this effort difficult and expensive. An overview essay explores the impact of technological change upon conflicts between the economic and political objectives of the two countries and ways in which the coordination of national politics might be maximized. The authors--representing a mix of government and business experience in both countries--offer specific recommendations on improving the efficiency of bilateral economic interaction, reducing the adjustment costs of technological change, and avoiding diplomatic tensions between the nations. Policy analysts examine the bilateral implications of the development strategies pursued by Mexico and the United States, the role played by domestic interest groups in the formation of these strategies, and the impact of technological change in the labor force along the border. Industry specialists examine changes in the automotive industry, the electric and electronics industries, bio-technological change in agriculture and nutrition, and the pharmaceutical and pharmochemical industries. Cathryn L. Thorup is the director of the Overseas Development Council's U.S.-Mexico Project, a policy-oriented, Washington-based forum for the exchange of ideas among key actors in the bilateral relationship. She is the author of many articles on conflict management in the U.S. Mexican policies toward Central America. Between 1980 and 1982, Ms. Thorup wrote regularly on international politics for the Mexican news magazine, Ranoes.
| Author | : Nathaniel Parish Flannery |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : Avocado industry |
| ISBN | : |
"Searching For Modern Mexico explains the problems and paradoxes that define the U.S.'s southern neighbor by telling the story behind the coffee, mezcal, avocados, beer, and tacos Mexico produces and exports. Author Nathaniel Parish Flannery, a veteran Latin America analyst and writer, brings readers to the front lines of some of the most fascinating and inaccessible parts of Mexico. The book invites readers into remote, indigenous communities, introduces a range of fascinating characters, and explains the obstacles in front of entrepreneurs trying to build businesses exporting traditional Mexican products. The book provides an unparalleled tour of the chaos and contradictions of Modern Mexico. Nathaniel Parish Flannery holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, has been researching and writing about Mexico since 2007, and published articles with Fortune, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Outside, Boston Magazine, Pacific Standard, and The Guardian. He started as a Latin America analyst on Wall Street. He has written for several think tanks and research groups including the Americas Society / Council of the Americas, The Economist Intelligence Unit, IHS Global Insight, Albright Stonebridge Group, Oxford Business Group, and the Open Society Foundation. While working on this book Nathaniel visited indigenous communities in the mountains of Chiapas and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, rode along with cartel-fighting vigilante gunmen in Michoacan, and sat down with taco chefs and CEOs in Guadalajara and Tijuana. He is a coffee aficionado, a mezcal drinker, an avocado devotee, and a long-time fan of beer and tacos. In Searching for Modern Mexico, he brings substantive economic and political analysis to Mexican life through intrepid fieldwork and narrative storytelling"--
| Author | : Mario Cimoli |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2013-09-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136547231 |
Mexico provides a case study of a cornerstone economy in the development of the hemospheric free trade zone in the Americas, an adjusting economy which has been integrated into uneven economies (Canada and the US). This volume examines the Mexican economy and its attempt to develop an innovation system, providing an example of the dynamics that are of concern to evolutionary economists.
| Author | : Van R. Whiting |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Roberto J. González |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2020-08-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520344219 |
This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network—without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collective tribulation, triumph, and tragedy the community experienced in pursuit of getting connected. In doing so, this book captures the challenges and contradictions facing Mexico's indigenous peoples today, as they struggle to wire themselves into the 21st century using mobile technologies, ingenuity, and sheer determination. It also holds a broader lesson about the great paradox of the digital age, by exploring how constant connection through virtual worlds can hinder our ability to communicate with those around us.
| Author | : Kelley Swarthout |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Mexico |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Van R. Whiting |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 57 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Adam David Morton |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2013-10-04 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1442229454 |
Now in an updated edition, this groundbreaking study develops a new approach to understanding the formation of the postrevolutionary state in Mexico. In a shift away from dominant interpretations, Adam David Morton considers the construction of the revolution and the modern Mexican state through a fresh analysis of the Mexican Revolution, the era of import substitution industrialization, and neoliberalism. Throughout, the author makes interdisciplinary links among geography, political economy, postcolonialism, and Latin American studies in order to provide a new framework for analyzing the development of state power in Mexico. He also explores key processes in the contestation of the modern state, specifically through studies of the role of intellectuals, democratization and democratic transition, and spaces of resistance. As Morton argues, all these themes can only be fully understood through the lens of uneven development in Latin America. Centrally, the book shows how the history of modern state formation and uneven development in Mexico is best understood as a form of passive revolution, referring to the ongoing class strategies that have shaped relations between state and civil society. As such, Morton makes an important interdisciplinary contribution to debates on state formation relevant to Mexican studies, postcolonial and development studies, historical sociology, and international political economy by revitalizing the debate on the uneven and combined character of development in Mexico and throughout Latin America. In so doing, he convincingly contends that uneven development can once again become a tool for radical political economy analysis in and beyond the region. A substantive new epilogue engages the main theoretical debates that have emerged since the book was first published, while also exploring the dominant geographies of power and resistance that are shaping state space in Mexico in the twenty-first century. And now a Spanish edition, Revolución y Estado en México moderno (México, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 2017), is available as well. Click here to see the book trailer.
