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Social Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500-2000 (Paperback)
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Social Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500-2000 (Paperback)
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In Aztec and colonial Central Mexico, every individual was destined
for lifelong placement in a legally defined social stratum or
estate. Social mobility became possible after independence from
Spain in 1821 and increased after the 1910-1920 Revolution. By
2000, the landed aristocracy that was for long Mexico's ruling
class had been replaced by a plutocracy whose wealth derives from
manufacturing, commerce, and finance-but rapid growth of the urban
lower classes reveals the failure of the Mexican Revolution and
subsequent agrarian reform to produce a middle-class majority.
These evolutionary changes in Mexico's class system form the
subject of Social Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500-2000, the
first long-term, comprehensive overview of social stratification
from the eve of the Spanish Conquest to the end of the twentieth
century. The book is divided into two parts. Part One concerns the
period from the Spanish Conquest of 1521 to the Revolution of 1910.
The authors depict the main features of the estate system that
existed both before and after the Spanish Conquest, the nature of
stratification on the haciendas that dominated the countryside for
roughly four centuries, and the importance of race and ethnicity in
both the estate system and the class structures that accompanied
and followed it. Part Two portrays the class structure of the
post-revolutionary period (1920 onward), emphasizing the demise of
the landed aristocracy, the formation of new upper and middle
classes, the explosive growth of the urban lower classes, and the
final phase of the Indian-mestizo transition in the countryside.
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