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- Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: The Mexican Experience
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In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local, national, and transnational levels, helped determine how Mexico would build and finance its roadways.
While Veracruz offered a radical model for regional construction that empowered agrarian communities, national consensus would solidify around policies championed by Nuevo León’s political and commercial elites. Bess shows that no single political figure or central agency dominated the process of determining Mexico's road-building policies. Instead, provincial road-building efforts highlight the contingent nature of power and state formation in midcentury Mexico.
While Veracruz offered a radical model for regional construction that empowered agrarian communities, national consensus would solidify around policies championed by Nuevo León’s political and commercial elites. Bess shows that no single political figure or central agency dominated the process of determining Mexico's road-building policies. Instead, provincial road-building efforts highlight the contingent nature of power and state formation in midcentury Mexico.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Bibliography
- pp. 195-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9781496204035
Related ISBN(s)
9780803299344
MARC Record
OCLC
986993851
Pages
246
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No