Mark Wasserman: 3 books
Pesos and Politics
Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The relationship between business and politics is crucial to understanding Mexican history, and Pesos and Politics explores this relationship from the mid-nineteenth century dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz through the Mexican Revolution (1876–1940). Historian Mark Wasserman argues that throughout...
Persistent Oligarchs
Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico 1910–1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 1993
Did the Mexican Revolution do away with the ruling class of the old regime? Did a new ruling class rise to take the old one's place—and if so, what differences resulted? In this compelling study, the first of its kind, Mark Wasserman pursues these questions through an analysis of the history and...
Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico
Men, Women, and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women-preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter-and the elites' desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy. The three key figures of nineteenth-century Mexico-Antonio...