The Mexican Heartland : : How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000 / / John Tutino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Tutino, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 32 halftones. 17 tables. 17 maps.

A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the forces that shaped global capitalism-setting families and communities at the center of histories that transformed the world.Despite invasion, disease, and depopulation, Mexico's heartland communities held strong on the land, adapting to sustain and shape the dynamic silver capitalism so pivotal to Spain's empire and world trade for centuries after 1550. They joined in insurgencies that brought the collapse of silver and other key global trades after 1810 as Mexico became a nation, then struggled to keep land and self-rule in the face of liberal national projects. They drove Zapata's 1910 revolution-a rising that rattled Mexico and the world of industrial capitalism. Although the revolt faced defeat, adamant communities forced a land reform that put them at the center of Mexico's experiment in national capitalism after 1920. Then, from the 1950s, population growth and technical innovations drove people from rural communities to a metropolis spreading across the land. The heartland urbanized, leaving people searching for new lives-dependent, often desperate, yet still pressing their needs in a globalizing world.A masterful work of scholarship, The Mexican Heartland is the story of how landed communities and families around Mexico City sustained silver capitalism, challenged industrial capitalism-and now struggle under globalizing urban capitalism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Capitalism and Community, Autonomy and Patriarchy -- PART I. SILVER CAPITALISM, 1500- 1820 -- CHAPTER ONE. Empire, Capitalism, and the Silver Economies of Spanish America -- CHAPTER TWO. Silver Capitalism and Indigenous Republics: Rebuilding Communities, 1500- 1700 -- CHAPTER THREE. Communities Carrying Capitalism: Symbiotic Exploitations, 1700- 1810 -- CHAPTER FOUR. Communities Challenging Capitalism: Insurgency in the Mezquital, 1800- 1815 -- CHAPTER FIVE. Insurgencies and Empires: The Fall of Silver Capitalism, 1808- 21 -- PART II. INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM, 1820- 1920 -- CHAPTER SIX. Mexico in the Age of Industrial Capitalism, 1810- 1910 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Anáhuac Upside Down: Chalco and Iztacalco, 1820- 45 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Commercial Revival, Liberal Reform, and Community Resistance: Chalco, 1845- 70 -- CHAPTER NINE. Carrying Capitalism into Revolution: Making Zapatista Communities, 1870- 1920 -- CHAPTER TEN. Capitalism Constraining Revolution: Mexico in a World at War, 1910- 20 -- PART III. NATIONAL CAPITALISM AND GLOBALISATION, 1920- 2000 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Mexico and the Struggle for National Capitalism, 1920- 80 -- CHAPTER TWELVE. After Zapata: Communities Carrying National Capitalism, 1920- 80 -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Building the Metropolis: Mexico City, 1940- 2000 -- EPILOGUE. After the Fall (of Autonomies): Globalization without Revolution -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Abbreviations Used in Citations and Bibliography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index