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xi Acknowledgments ; / Financial support for the research and writing of this book came from the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), the Reed Smith Fellowship, the UC Davis History Department, the Jarena D. Wright Scholarship, the UC Davis Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, the UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs, and summerresearchfundingfromtheUniversityofNorthernColorado.Iamgrateful for the material and moral support that these institutions have granted me. Two previously published articles both included aspects of chapters 3 and 4: “Inmigrantes vascos y movimiento obrero en el México porfiriano,” Revista de Estudios Sociales (April 2008): 65–85; and “El horno no está para bollos: Inmigración, clases sociales y pan en la ciudad de México,” Espacio Regional, Revista de Estudios Sociales 2, no. 3 (2006): 70–85. This book reflects the encouragement of UC Davis History Department professors Andrés Reséndez, Chuck Walker, Tom Holloway, and Alan Taylor. Friends and colleagues Pablo Whipple, Kim Davis, Claudia Darrigandri, Lia Schraeder, Claudio Robles, Fernando Purcell, Mathew Osborn, Stevan Ward, Hernán Correa, Ingrid Bleynart, Catherine Komisaruk, Marie Francois, Jeffrey Pilcher, Carolyn de la Peña, Sandra Aguilar, Ignacio Sosa, Eugenia Meyer, Bob Schmidt, Sandra Mendiola, Jeremy Trabue, T. J. Tomlin, Joan Clinefelter, Nick Syrett, and many others offered helpful criticism and support . My colleagues at the University of Northern Colorado have encouraged me with their examples of dedication, rigor, and camaraderie. The historians José Roberto Gallegos and Mónica Lara have shared with me their knowledge , ideas, affection, and inflatable mattress for several years in Mexico City. All have shown me the value of friendship and intellectual community. xii Acknowledgments Archivists and staff at several institutions aided this research. I am particularlygratefultothesuperbarchivistsattheArchivoHist óricodelaCiudad de México, the friendly and expeditious support of Abertano Guerrero Godoy and Raymundo F. Alvarez García at the Archivo General de la Nación, the librarians at the Biblioteca Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, and the Hemeroteca Nacional de México. Clark Whitehorn, editor in chief of the University of New Mexico Press, was very supportive of this book’s gradual development. Sarah Soliz and the anonymous reviewers made suggestions and criticisms that vastly improved the prose and the exposition. I had the privilege of discussing bread and bakeries with the maestros panaderos Alfonso Ortega Ríos, Pascual Cortés, Mario Anguiano Trejo, Agustín Moreno, and Carlos Ramírez. The following bakery and flour mill owners also graciously shared their personal and professional histories with me: Julián Castañón, Adolfo Fernández, Darío Ordóñez, Benito Luque, José Sierra, Enrique Segura, and José Luis Fuente. In Mexico, a newborn who brings fortune to a family is said to carry a piece of bread under her arm. Myrna was born as this research began and has brought endless fortune to our lives ever since. This book is dedicated to her and to my wife, Araceli Calderón, who has contributed to this book more than she could know. Finally, my deepest gratitude goes to our families in Santa Rosa and Tingambato. ...

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