(Antuñano, Estevan de)
Economia Politica en Mexico.
Apuntes para la Historia de la Industria Mexicana. Aviso impotante y respetuoso que se dirige al Superior Gobierno, a la Ezma, Junta Departmamental de Puebla
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half-title attractively printed within a printed border, this leaf sometime folded and a little soiled, neat excision of a small square to the terminal blank (signature?), extensive annotations; a very good copy
pp. [2], 10, [2], 8vo; with a half-title within a printed borderand terminal blank;
disbound, scraps of blue paper wrappers adhering to final leaf
Publication Details:
Puebla. Impresa Antigua en el portal de las flores 1842
Notes: First edition, scarce, of a fascinating and typographically attractive pamphlet by the Mexican industrialist and propagandist Estevan de Antuñano (1792–1847) outlining his strategies for economic protectionism regarding Mexican textiles. Antuñano was educated in Spain and in England, where he became familiar with industrial production. In the 1830s he led the modernization of the textile industry in Puebla, setting up Mexico's first mechanized spinning factory, La Constancia Mexicana, which produced cotton yarn on Arkwright spindles powered by the waters of the Río Atoyac. By the early 1...moreFirst edition, scarce, of a fascinating and typographically attractive pamphlet by the Mexican industrialist and propagandist Estevan de Antuñano (1792–1847) outlining his strategies for economic protectionism regarding Mexican textiles. Antuñano was educated in Spain and in England, where he became familiar with industrial production. In the 1830s he led the modernization of the textile industry in Puebla, setting up Mexico's first mechanized spinning factory, La Constancia Mexicana, which produced cotton yarn on Arkwright spindles powered by the waters of the Río Atoyac. By the early 1840s, he owned four such factories in Puebla. A vigorous propagandist, who authored over sixty pamphlets, Antuñano had a vision of national development that was tied closely to industrial and particularly textile production. Here he outlines one of the plans by which he wanted to ensure that the traditional manufacturing centre of Puebla wrest control of northern Mexican markets, which were then dependent on contraband, mainly from the US. This with extensive contemporary annotation commenting in detail on the plan. Ultimately Antuñano's vision floundered on the realities of the scarcity of raw cotton and currency, the persistence of contraband, and national disintegration. It is difficult to assess institutions holdings of pamphlets such as these, but it is doubtless scarce. WordlCat lists copies at UC Berkeley, Harvard and Senate House. See: Miguel A. Quintana, Estevan de Antuñano, (1957). HIDE
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Price: £400
Subject: Economics
Published Date: 1842
Stock Number: 71236
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