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Mexico, Interrupted - Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence (Hardcover)
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Mexico, Interrupted - Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Mexican Studies
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Mexican independence was, in a sense, an economic event. It was so
on two counts. First, it was in the realm of the economic that
elites managed to create a common ground with non-elites in their
demands against foreign domination. Second, it was an economic
event in that, throughout the 19th century, independence was
imagined by the lettered men of Mexico as a feat that nationalized,
or that could have nationalized, a rich and productive economic
apparatus. Mexico, Interrupted investigates the fate of these
economic hopes during the difficult decades between the year of the
country's definite separation from Spain and the year of the defeat
of the French occupation and the restoration of the Republic, which
many took to be the second and final independence of the territory.
Drawing on the writings of politicians, journalists, intellectuals,
industrialists, and novelists, this book studies the Mexican
intelligentsia's obsessive engagement with the labor and idleness
of the citizenry in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent
nation. By focusing on work and its opposites in the period
between, Mexico, Interrupted reconstructs the period's "economic
imaginaries of independence": the repertoire of political and
cultural discourses that structured the understandings, beliefs,
and fantasies about the relationships between "the economy" and the
life of an independent polity. All told, by bringing together
intellectual history, critical theory, and cultural studies, this
project offers a new account of the Mexican nineteenth century and
complicates existing histories of the spread of the "spirit of
capitalism" through the Americas.
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