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Porfirio Diaz is a new biography of the controversial Mexican dictator who was toppled by the 1910 Revolution. The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Paul Garner looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the Diaz regime from two very different perspectives: that of the nineteenth century, and of the twentieth century.
The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a
watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and
conservative government, and the more democratic and representative
system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now
this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians,
who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with
anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a
dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading
of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that
spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that
post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the
revolutionary inheritors claimed.
Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's
most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the
international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men. At
the center of his global business empire were his interests in
Mexico.
While Pearson's extraordinary success in Mexico took place within
the context of unprecedented levels of British trade with and
investment in Latin America, Garner argues that Pearson should be
understood less as an agent of British imperialism than as an agent
of Porfirian state building and modernization. Pearson was able to
secure contracts for some of nineteenth-century Mexico's most
important public works projects in large part because of his
reliability, his empathy with the developmentalist project of
Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, and his assiduous cultivation of a
clientelist network within the Mexican political elite. His success
thus provides an opportunity to reappraise the role played by
overseas interests in the national development of Mexico.
The twin focus of this book is on the importance of the Spanish
heritage on nation and state building in nineteenth-century
Spanish-speaking Latin America, alongside processes of nation and
state building in Spain and Latin America. Rather than
concentrating purely on nationalism and national identity, the book
explores the linkages that remained or were re-established between
Spain and her former colonies; as has increasingly been recognised
in recent decades, the nineteenth century world was marked by the
rise of the modern nation state, but also by the development of new
transnational connections, and this book accounts for these
processes within a Hispanic context.
Published in cooperation with the Accounting History Association of
Japan, this volume brings together key essays presented at the
World Congress on Accounting History held in Kyoto, Japan. Covering
a wide range of topics, from 16th-century accounting practices in
Spain to the development of the certified public accountants system
in contemporary China, the volume illustrated the richness of the
subject areas and research approaches being utilized in the field.
In addition to broad examination of topics such as accounting and
public policy, or the evolution of strategic management accounting,
the volume provides case studies ranging from 16th-century
accounting practices in Spain to the development of the certified
public accountants system in contemporary China. The topics and
methods considered should encourage other researchers to add to the
range of accounting history, while accounting practitioners with an
interest in the profession will come away from the volume with a
greater appreciation of the originators of some of their practices
and theories.
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