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Bakers and Basques : A Social History of Bread in Mexico /

"Mexico City's colorful panaderías (bakeries) have long been vital neighborhood institutions. They were also crucial sites where labor, subsistence, and politics collided. From the 1880s well into the twentieth century, Basque immigrants dominated the bread trade, to the detriment of smal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weis, Robert, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Zelo y desvelo" : the bread monopoly and late colonial market reforms
  • "A system that offends the hands of brothers" : small bakers and the free market in independent Mexico
  • "An uncle in America" : chain migration and the Spanish monopoly
  • "Dough kneaded with blood"
  • "We have no bread" : hunger, opportunity, and war
  • The bakers' revolution
  • Unionists, tlalchicholes, and canasteros.