"How industrialization undid a region in Mexico"
Scholars once treated regions as fundamental units of social
organization, influencing the affairs of communities and
households. Chris Kyle renews that perspective by charting the
history of a preindustrial region in the southern Mexican state of
Guerrero. Examining the city of Chilapa and its surrounding
countryside, he documents a region's initial formation, subsequent
evolution, and ultimate dissolution, brought about by the forces of
industrialization.
"Feeding Chilapa" traces the emergence of Chilapa as a textile
center in the late eighteenth century, the reorganization of the
city's hinterland in the mid-nineteenth century, and the ultimate
dissolution of the region in the mid-twentieth century. When
improved transportation enabled the movement of cheap goods over
long distances, subsistence and artisanal production declined or
disappeared, and labor relations, settlement geography, and
migration patterns were transformed. Kyle offers a new perspective
on the immigration debate, exploring the factors that lead rural
citizens to leave economically depressed regions for larger Mexican
cities, border industries, or the United States.
Written to be accessible to undergraduates, this volume offers a
counterpoint to traditional community-based studies and our
understanding of change in Latin America.
Chris Kyle is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of numerous
scholarly articles on rural Mexico.
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