Routes of Compromise - Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952

Informationen zum Autor Michael K. Bess teaches history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico.  Klappentext Michael K. Bess teaches history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico.¿ Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures     Acknowledgments     Abbreviations     Introduction: Revolutionary Roads     Chapter 1: “A Good Road . . . Brings Life to All of the Towns It Passes”: The Fight for a National and Public Road-Building Program     Chapter 2: “Everyone Was Ready to Do Their Part”: Road Politics and State Bureaucracies Take Shape in Nuevo León and Veracruz     Chapter 3: “So That These Problems May Be Placed in the Hand of the President”: Roads and Motor Travel under Cardenismo     Chapter 4: “We March with Mexico for Liberty!”: Road Building in Wartime     Chapter 5: “Those Who Do Not Look Forward Are Left Behind”: Alemanismo’s Road to Prosperity     Chapter 6: Charting the Contours: State Power in Mexico’s Road-Building Efforts     Appendix A: Comparing the Real Cost of Federal and State Spending on Roads     Appendix B: Comparing the Budgets for Program for Cooperation on Roads and the Comisión Nacional de Caminos Vecinales     Appendix C: Minimum Wages in Nuevo León and Veracruz for Road Workers     Notes     Bibliography     Index

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• Authors: Michael K Bess, Michael K. Bess, Michael Kirkland Bess
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780803299344
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9934-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: The Mexican Experience; The Mexican Experience
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