From the Grounds Up : Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico / Casey Marina Lurtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lurtz, Casey Marina, Author.

Series:

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee industry--Mexico--Soconusco (Region)--History--19th century.

Coffee industry.

Coffee industry--Mexico--Soconusco (Region)--History--20th century.

Agricultural industries--Mexico--Soconusco (Region)--History--19th century.

Agricultural industries.

Agricultural industries--Mexico--Soconusco (Region)--History--20th century.

Soconusco (Mexico : Region)--Commerce--History--19th century.

Soconusco (Mexico : Region).

Soconusco Region (Mexico)--Commerce--History--20th century.

Soconusco Region (Mexico).

Soconusco (Mexico : Region)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Soconusco (Mexico : Region)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits, and staple goods across oceans to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from foreign markets. In southern Mexico's Soconusco district, the coffee trade would transform rural life. A regional history of the Soconusco as well as a study in commodity capitalism, From the Grounds Up places indigenous and mestizo villagers, migrant workers, and local politicians at the center of our understanding of the export boom. An isolated, impoverished backwater for most of the nineteenth century, by 1920, the Soconusco had transformed into a small but vibrant node in the web of global commerce. Alongside plantation owners and foreign investors, a dense but little-explored web of small-time producers, shopowners, and laborers played key roles in the rapid expansion of export production. Their deep engagement with rural development challenges the standard top-down narrative of market integration led by economic elites allied with a strong state. Here, Casey Marina Lurtz argues that the export boom owed its success to a diverse body of players whose choices had profound impacts on Latin America's export-driven economy during the first era of globalization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Currency, Units of Measure, and Terms

Introduction

1 An Uncultivated Eden

2 Fixing the Border

3 From Bullets to Bureaucracy

4 The Landscape of Production

5 Scarce Labor and Unrealized Reform

6 The Circulation of Codes and Commerce

Conclusion

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503608474

1503608476

OCLC:

1178768839