Before I did this week’s reading, I didn’t think that modernity had different degrees and components to it. But I could think of a few examples where clever and innovative dictators had economic advantages but didn’t necessarily promote social advantages like liberty and freedom. So the fact that countries ruled by dictators could have economic growth … Continue reading Week 7
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This topic of the export boom and modernity is definitely a topic whose tone changes depending on who’s telling the story. A Mexican elite, a new factory worker, or an American investor might’ve spoken highly of Díaz’s presidency. On the other hand, these new benefits were only possible from the exploitation of so many who […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Diaz, export boom, industrialization, James Creelman, modernity
This week’s topic discusses how the history of the Latin American continent was shaped by the role exportation played in the economics of its countries, as well as all the socio-cultural changes that came from an increasingly connected and interdependent world economy. The chapter takes a close look at the place Latin American countries occupied […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with economic development, export boom, international division of labour
This week’s topic discusses how the history of the Latin American continent was shaped by the role exportation played in the economics of its countries, as well as all the socio-cultural changes that came from an increasingly connected and interdependent world economy. The chapter takes a close look at the place Latin American countries occupied […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with economic development, export boom, international division of labour
This week we looked at Latin America post independence and post-caudillo when national governments began to play a bigger role in the state. As a result of the long periods of civil war, caudillo rule, and general lack of state-governed order that ensued after independence, many Latin American states were left with poor conditions: states […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Creelman, democracy, Diaz, export boom, government, modernity, positivism
This week we looked at Latin America post independence and post-caudillo when national governments began to play a bigger role in the state. As a result of the long periods of civil war, caudillo rule, and general lack of state-governed order that ensued after independence, many Latin American states were left with poor conditions: states […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Creelman, democracy, Diaz, export boom, government, modernity, positivism
In the video that Dawson narrates, “Golden Age of the Export Oligarchy,” he mentions that people living in periphery countries feel certain anxieties different from people living in the “center:” countries that are more modern. He explains how countries of the periphery are countries in which their people feel a sense that they are behind […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with assignment 7, Dawson, export boom, modern, modernity, periphery, photographs
In the video that Dawson narrates, “Golden Age of the Export Oligarchy,” he mentions that people living in periphery countries feel certain anxieties different from people living in the “center:” countries that are more modern. He explains how countries of the periphery are countries in which their people feel a sense that they are behind […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with assignment 7, Dawson, export boom, modern, modernity, periphery, photographs
