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Panaderías En La Ciudad De México De Porfirio Díaz: Los Empresarios Vasco-Navarros Y La Movilización Obrera, Robert Weis
Panaderías En La Ciudad De México De Porfirio Díaz: Los Empresarios Vasco-Navarros Y La Movilización Obrera, Robert Weis
History Faculty Publications
This article examines the insertion of Basque immigrants from the Baztan Valley, in the province of Navarre, into the wheat-flour-bread complex of late-nineteenth century Mexico City. Additionally, it describes labor conditions in the bakeries they owned and analyzes the place of workers in the Mexico of Porfi rio Díaz. In contrast to the historiographical tendency to present immigrant entrepreneurs, and the Porfirian state, as forces of capitalist modernization, the article shows that, with important exceptions, bakeries remained archaic and pre-capitalist in order to permit the integration of the constant stream of nephews that linked Mexico City and the Baztán Valley. …
Landscape Of Ghosts, River Of Dreams; A History Of Big Bend National Park, Michael Welsh
Landscape Of Ghosts, River Of Dreams; A History Of Big Bend National Park, Michael Welsh
History Faculty Publications
National parks join the system for a variety of reasons: great natural beauty, the need to preserve wilderness in the face of development, historic resources that the nation needs to remember, and the like. For Texas’s first unit of the NPS system, Big Bend National Park, all of the above features applied. In addition, the distinctive ecology of a mountain, desert, and riverine landscape compelled NPS officials and local sponsors alike in the 1930s and 1940s to plead with private donors and elected representatives to make Big Bend in 1944 the 28th unit of the NPS organization (at the time …