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Race, ethnicity and gender played an important role in the complex relationship between export agriculture, labour and state power in Chiapas during the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1914). This case study of tropical plantation development and a major regional study of modern Mexico analyses the politics of state-building and the history of land tenure and rural labour in the state of Chiapas in the period leading up to the outbreak of Revolution in 1910.The book also contributes to the growing history of indigenous peoples in Latin America, examining the changing relationship between Indian groups and non-Indian governments and economic interests in Chiapas during the nineteenth century. In so doing, it addresses questions of tradition, modernity, national state-building, globalisation and the development of capitalism in Latin America. The book argues that colonial caste identities and relations were no impediments to modernisation. Instead, they were modified by liberalism, reinter

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PART I: THE COLONIAL PERIOD AND THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE; PART 2: POLITICS, RACE AND STATE BUILDING, 1876-1914; PART 3: LABOUR, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AND LANDED POWER, 1876-1914

Producing Modernity in Mexico

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 1/26/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780197264973
      978-0197264973
      ISBN-10 0197264972
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Sociology: work and labour

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Race, ethnicity and gender played an important role in the complex relationship between export agriculture, labour and state power in Chiapas during the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1914). This case study of tropical plantation development and a major regional study of modern Mexico analyses the politics of state-building and the history of land tenure and rural labour in the state of Chiapas in the period leading up to the outbreak of Revolution in 1910.The book also contributes to the growing history of indigenous peoples in Latin America, examining the changing relationship between Indian groups and non-Indian governments and economic interests in Chiapas during the nineteenth century. In so doing, it addresses questions of tradition, modernity, national state-building, globalisation and the development of capitalism in Latin America. The book argues that colonial caste identities and relations were no impediments to modernisation. Instead, they were modified by liberalism, reinter

      Table of Contents
      PART I: THE COLONIAL PERIOD AND THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE; PART 2: POLITICS, RACE AND STATE BUILDING, 1876-1914; PART 3: LABOUR, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AND LANDED POWER, 1876-1914

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