John Tutino

• Georgetown University

By 1830, it was clear that the silver economy that made New Spain rich had collapsed and would not soon recover. Mexico's commercial economy languished and the government searched for revenue. Debates followed. Lucas Alaman argued that a revival of silver and the rise of industry would bring growth and fund government. Tadeo Ortiz insisted that Mex...

Environmental History - Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City. By Vera S. Candiani . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxix, 376. Images. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Index. $60.00 cloth. - Volume 72 Issue 3 - John Tutino

The Comanche rose by adapting to the technological and trade opportunities brought to New Mexico by the eighteenth-century expansion of New Spain's globally linked silver economy. They built an empire that flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century, dominating vast areas of the high plains and controlling complex trades, just as a socia...

Tracing economic, social, and cultural connections from colonial times until today, this book highlights the foundational contributions of Mexico and Mexicans to the United States-Hispanic capitalism, patriarchy, and mestizaje, or ethnic blending.

Capitalist globalization began in the sixteenth century when Chinese demand for silver stimulated silver production in recently conquered Spanish America. That pivotal link generated trades that spanned the globe and energized production in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. New Spain, the colonial predecessor of Mexico and of regions extending into t...

The lives and rights of Mexicans living and working in the United States have been topics of discussion and debate since the 1840s. Recently, North American integration within an accelerating globalization of production and trade, work and culture has fixed political debates on "illegal" immigration. People from almost everywhere break U.S. border...

Este ensayo se construye sobre la erudición histórica de Adolfo Gilly y Friedrich Katz, y ante las perspectivas teóricas de Barrington Moore, Theda Skocpol y Richard Adams. Se enfoca en tres coyunturas en que las relaciones entre el poder del Estado, las fuerzas sociales nacionales y el capitalismo global modificaron el curso de la historia mexican...

This essay explores the interaction of the political challenges that began with Napoleon's occupation of Spain and the rise of Cadiz liberalism, the popular insurgencies that developed in key regions of New Spain in 1810, and the decade of conflict that led to Mexican independence. It examines how transatlantic debates about sovereignty led to insu...

Forces loyal to Emiliano Zapata rose to demand land and community autonomy in the revolution that brought destruction and transformation to Mexico after 1910. Men fought to right historic wrongs, land losses that began in the colonial era and political exclusions that mounted during the nineteenth century. Yet those historic grievances were already...

The Americas 59.4 (2003) 581-583 Scholars who teach Mexican history have awaited a short book analyzing the origins, course, and consequences of the Mexican revolution. The scholarship is immense; debates persist; massive histories, regional studies, topical monographs, and political biographies abound; cultural and gender studies provide essential...

Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33.2 (2002) 332-334 This is an important book—vast, deeply researched, and carefully argued. It explores popular participations in the wars for Mexican independence, profiling those who rebelled and those who led, while exploring how deep mindsets and emerging ideologies engaged to drive conflicts over power and...

Studies of Mexican agrarian history long have focused on great estates and peasant communities, institutions presumed to dominate rural life. This essay suggests, however, that the agrarian poor first organized their lives in families—groups that dealt creatively with powerful people and institutions. It explores the ways the rural poor organized f...

This essay explores the social relations within a landed elite—the dominant class in eighteenth-century Mexico. It aims to outline the nature of the powers that sustained that elite, to determine who directly exercised those powers, and to detail the relations between those pivotal powerholders and the remaining majority of elite class members. My...