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Bakers and Basques : a social history of bread in Mexico / Robert Weis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weis, Robert, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bread industry--Mexico--History.
- Bread industry.
- Bread--Economic aspects--Mexico--History.
- Bread.
- Bread--Political aspects--Mexico--History.
- Bakeries--Mexico--History.
- Bakeries.
- Bakers--Political activity--Mexico--History.
- Bakers.
- Mexico--Economic conditions.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- More than a book about bread, Bakers and Basques places food and labor at the center of the upheavals in Mexican history from independence to the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
- Contents:
- "Zelo y desvelo" : the bread monopoly and late colonial market reforms
- "A system that offends the hands of brothers" : small bakers and the free market in independent Mexico
- "An uncle in America" : chain migration and the Spanish monopoly
- "Dough kneaded with blood"
- "We have no bread" : hunger, opportunity, and war
- The bakers' revolution
- Unionists, tlalchicholes, and canasteros.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613883629
- 9781283571173
- 128357117X
- 9780826351470
- 0826351476
- OCLC:
- 821734053
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