{"product_id":"routes-of-compromise-9780803299344","title":"Routes of Compromise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael K. Bess's new book on road building in post-Revolutionary Mexico uses the network of federal highways and local dirt roads constructed in the first half of the twentieth century as an apt metaphor for the mediated and uneven penetration of state power during that era.\"—Casey Marina Lurtz, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is not just an important piece of political economy, but also a microcosm of the broader functioning of postrevolutionary politics.\"—Paul Gillingham, \u003ci\u003eAmericas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael K. Bess has provided us with an easily readable and very valuable book. He weaves strands of economic development and political struggle into a cohesive and coherent analytic narrative. \u003ci\u003eRoutes of Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e will prove valuable to historians of Mexico and students alike, as well as to anyone interested in transnational comparisons of roadbuilding in other situations.\"—Bruce A. Castleman, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Bess's tight analysis, exhaustive research, and effective prose will surely be required reading for students interested in nation-building, political economy, and the realization of revolutionary ideals of twentieth century Mexico.\"—Matthew A. Redinger, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRoutes of Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e is a lucidly written, deeply researched, and much-needed study on road building after the Mexican Revolution. Given the economic and cultural importance roads have for any society, this book should attract investigators beyond the field of Mexican history. Scholars researching economic development, state formation, and transportation elsewhere in the twentieth century should consider\u003ci\u003e Routes of Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e a necessary read for comparison with Mexico.\"—Salvador Salinas, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A richly documented study of the national, regional, and local politics surrounding road construction in Mexico. Obligatory reading for students interested in state-building, economic development, and everyday conflicts over the spoils of modernization.”—Barry Carr, professor emeritus at La Trobe University and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Comparative in approach and sensitive to the transnational dimension and the agendas of politicians, bureaucrats, and members of an array of social groups, Michael Bess’s nuanced treatment of Mexican road-building is a must-read for anyone interested in Mexico’s postrevolutionary experience.”—Samuel Brunk, professor of history at the University of Texas, El Paso, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico’s Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“A compelling analysis of the essential but overlooked impact of road building in modern Mexico. Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, few recent works are as important to understanding how state power, economic modernization, and nation-building converged in twentieth-century Mexico.”—Susan Gauss, associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Revolutionary Roads    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: “A Good Road . . . Brings Life to All of the Towns It Passes”: The Fight for a National and Public Road-Building Program    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: “Everyone Was Ready to Do Their Part”: Road Politics and State Bureaucracies Take Shape in Nuevo León and Veracruz    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: “So That These Problems May Be Placed in the Hand of the President”: Roads and Motor Travel under Cardenismo    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: “We March with Mexico for Liberty!”: Road Building in Wartime    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: “Those Who Do Not Look Forward Are Left Behind”: Alemanismo’s Road to Prosperity    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Charting the Contours: State Power in Mexico’s Road-Building Efforts    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Comparing the Real Cost of Federal and State Spending on Roads    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Comparing the Budgets for Program for Cooperation on Roads and the Comisión Nacional de Caminos Vecinales    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: Minimum Wages in Nuevo León and Veracruz for Road Workers    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405304275287,"sku":"9780803299344","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803299344.jpg?v=1730489670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/routes-of-compromise-9780803299344","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}