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A social history of Mexico's railroads : peons, prisoners, and priests / Teresa Miriam Van Hoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Hoy, Teresa Miriam.
- Series:
- Jaguar Books on Latin America Series
- Jaguar books on Latin America series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Social aspects--Mexico--History.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Economic aspects--Mexico--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.
- Summary:
- Largely absent from our history books is the social history of railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico, which promoted rapid economic growth that greatly benefited elites but also heavily impacted rural and provincial Mexican residents in communities traversed by the rails.
- Contents:
- Twelve hours by train rather than twelve days on foot : independence and isolation
- Thatched huts, cactus fences, and crops unplanted : railroads and land
- southern Mexico
- From convicts and conscripts to payroll crews : labor on the railroads
- unpaid to well paid
- Wood, lime, and crushed rock : labor on the railroads
- beyond the payroll
- Pilgrimages, mangos, and medicine : railroad services
- formal and informal
- Inspectors, inaugurations, and public bulletins : authoritarian policies
- mellowed and manipulated
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7425-5328-0
- 1-4617-0031-0
- OCLC:
- 869090971
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