The Mexican Revolution has always been a very interesting topic for me to study, as I have studied it in the past in high school. We often debated who was essentially the father of the Mexican Revolution, if it was Madero since he was originally the moving force behind it, if it was Pancho Villa […]
The Mexican Revolution has always been a very interesting topic for me to study, as I have studied it in the past in high school. We often debated who was essentially the father of the Mexican Revolution, if it was Madero since he was originally the moving force behind it, if it was Pancho Villa […]
“In short, Latin Americans lived in a fragmentary world; one person’s boom was always another’s crisis.” says Alexander Dawson quite well. (p 141). This sentence sums up the events that followed the boom of modernity, using examples of the violent uprisings setting in countryside during the Mexican Revolution. A key concept in this chapter is […]
“In short, Latin Americans lived in a fragmentary world; one person’s boom was always another’s crisis.” says Alexander Dawson quite well. (p 141). This sentence sums up the events that followed the boom of modernity, using examples of the violent uprisings setting in countryside during the Mexican Revolution. A key concept in this chapter is […]
I find it very helpful how Dawson will define terms in a way that he will be discussing them. For example, he defines “revolution” in a way different from what I have ever heard. When I think of “revolution,” I think of a period of time of drastic change: a time of emancipation for specific […]
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I find it very helpful how Dawson will define terms in a way that he will be discussing them. For example, he defines “revolution” in a way different from what I have ever heard. When I think of “revolution,” I think of a period of time of drastic change: a time of emancipation for specific […]
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When we focus exclusively as a way to understanding modernity in an economic way, then we can leave out even after the golden age of the export oligarchy ended there were people who did not beneficiated from such period. The cycles of inequalities have always been very close to the daily lives of Latin Americans […]
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When we focus exclusively as a way to understanding modernity in an economic way, then we can leave out even after the golden age of the export oligarchy ended there were people who did not beneficiated from such period. The cycles of inequalities have always been very close to the daily lives of Latin Americans […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with latin america, Mexico
In this week’s materials, we have seen how the notion of progress and the restructuring of society into an export-oriented economy were alternately beneficial and harmful to different classes within the same society. Although more wealth was brought into the region with the onset of industrialization, the vast majority of it was distributed to those […]
In this week’s materials, we have seen how the notion of progress and the restructuring of society into an export-oriented economy were alternately beneficial and harmful to different classes within the same society. Although more wealth was brought into the region with the onset of industrialization, the vast majority of it was distributed to those […]
