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Routes of Compromise

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

Book information

ISBN: 9780803299344
Publisher: Nebraska
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.476257097209041
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 234
Weight: 513g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 18mm