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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN: 0803211953.
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Lincoln. 1987. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0803211953. 181 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Mexico Latin America Porfirio Diaz. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The thirty-five-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, from 1876 to 1911, marked Mexico's era of modern development. It was a period of self-conscious progress, of identification with the economic development and fashions of Europe and the United States, and of strenuous efforts to eradicate much of what was traditional in Mexican society. Those changes not only produced conflicts between the old and the new in Mexico but led to antagonism between classes of people. William Beezley writes in the best tradition of Braudel, LeRoy Ladurie, and other exponents of the new social history. His analysis of subconscious forces, anecdotes, folk humor, sports, traveler's accounts, and other unusual sources opens a window on society and culture in late-nineteenth-century Mexico. In his quest to understand everyday Mexicans during the turbulent times of the Porfiriato, Beezley probes into every corner of their lives. He examines recreational choices from bullfighting to baseball and cycling, food, housing, clothing, agricultural technology, sanitation, and transportation. Judas burnings on the day before Easter had long been a popular Mexican tradition with antecedents in ancient Europe. As such they were symbolic of a society that proponents of progress were determined to transform into a new order. When public concerns such as fears of the railroad and of Chinese coolie competition for jobs were projected onto Judases, the burnings became a visible threat to authority. In the 1890s when elite society, represented by the exclusive Jockey Club, adopted an elaborate form of this folk recreation as a kind of mockery, Judas burnings became a primary focus of the fierce struggle underway in Mexico between a traditional way of life and a rapidly encroaching modern world. inventory #32337.