Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- 1 Latin America and the international economy, 1870–1914
- 2 Latin America and the international economy, 1914–1929
- 3 Population
- 4 Rural Spanish America
- 5 The growth of cities
- 6 Industry
- 7 The urban working class and early labour movements
- 8 The Catholic church
- 9 Mexico: Restored republic and Porfiriato, 1867–1910
- 10 The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920
- 11 Mexico: Revolution and reconstruction in the 1920s
- 12 Central America
- 13 Cuba
- 14 Puerto Rico
- 15 The Dominican Republic
- 16 Haiti
- 17 Argentina: Economy, 1870–1914
- 18 Argentina: Society and politics, 1880–1916
- 19 Argentina, 1914–1930
- 20 Uruguay
- 21 Paraguay
- 22 Chile
- 23 Bolivia
- 24 Peru
- 25 Colombia
- 26 Ecuador
- 27 Venezuela
- 28 Brazil: Economy
- 29 Brazil: Society and politics, 1870–1889
- 30 Brazil: Society and politics, 1889–1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
9 - Mexico: Restored republic and Porfiriato, 1867–1910
from VI - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
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- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- 1 Latin America and the international economy, 1870–1914
- 2 Latin America and the international economy, 1914–1929
- 3 Population
- 4 Rural Spanish America
- 5 The growth of cities
- 6 Industry
- 7 The urban working class and early labour movements
- 8 The Catholic church
- 9 Mexico: Restored republic and Porfiriato, 1867–1910
- 10 The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920
- 11 Mexico: Revolution and reconstruction in the 1920s
- 12 Central America
- 13 Cuba
- 14 Puerto Rico
- 15 The Dominican Republic
- 16 Haiti
- 17 Argentina: Economy, 1870–1914
- 18 Argentina: Society and politics, 1880–1916
- 19 Argentina, 1914–1930
- 20 Uruguay
- 21 Paraguay
- 22 Chile
- 23 Bolivia
- 24 Peru
- 25 Colombia
- 26 Ecuador
- 27 Venezuela
- 28 Brazil: Economy
- 29 Brazil: Society and politics, 1870–1889
- 30 Brazil: Society and politics, 1889–1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
In 1958 Daniel Cosío Villegas, one of Mexico’s greatest historians whose special field was the history of Mexico from 1867 to 1910, stated that, quite apart from the period of the Restored Republic (1867–76), nearly 2,000 books and pamphlets had been written on the Porfirian period (1876–1910) alone. Yet, with a number of significant exceptions, the most important works on this period of Mexican history have appeared since the 1950s. The secondary literature on the period 1867–1910, and especially on the Porfiriato, is assessed in Daniel Cosío Villegas, ‘El Porfiriato: Su historiografía o arte histórico’, in Extremos de América (Mexico, D.F., 1949), 113–82; John Womack, Jr., ‘Mexican political historiography, 1959–1969’, in Investigaciones contemporáneas sobre historia de México (Mexico, D.F., and Austin, Tex., 1971); Enrique Florescano, Elpoder y la lucha por el poder en la historiografía mexicana (Mexico, D.F., 1980); and Thomas Benjamin and Marcial Ocasio-Meléndez, ‘Organizing the memory of modern Mexico: Porfirian historiography in perspective, 1880s-1980s’, HAHR, 64/2 (1984), 323–64. The most important, most comprehensive work on the whole period from 1867 to 1910 is the monumental Historia moderna de México (Mexico, D.F., 1958–72), a huge thirteen-volume collective work edited and partly written by Daniel Cosio Villegas. It was written in the 1950s and 1960s under Cosío’s direction by a team of historians who collected every available piece of evidence in Mexican, North American and European archives, and examined all aspects of life in Mexico, embracing political, economic and social as well as intellectual history.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 380 - 385Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995
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