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From the Grounds Up - Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico (Hardcover)
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From the Grounds Up - Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico (Hardcover)
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In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From
Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical
fruits, and staple goods across oceans to satisfy the
ever-increasing demand from foreign markets. In southern Mexico's
Soconusco district, the coffee trade would transform rural life. A
regional history of the Soconusco as well as a study in commodity
capitalism, From the Grounds Up places indigenous and mestizo
villagers, migrant workers, and local politicians at the center of
our understanding of the export boom. An isolated, impoverished
backwater for most of the nineteenth century, by 1920, the
Soconusco had transformed into a small but vibrant node in the web
of global commerce. Alongside plantation owners and foreign
investors, a dense but little-explored web of small-time producers,
shopowners, and laborers played key roles in the rapid expansion of
export production. Their deep engagement with rural development
challenges the standard top-down narrative of market integration
led by economic elites allied with a strong state. Here, Casey
Marina Lurtz argues that the export boom owed its success to a
diverse body of players whose choices had profound impacts on Latin
America's export-driven economy during the first era of
globalization.
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