Mexico City, 1808 - (Diálogos) by John Tutino (Hardcover)

About the Book

Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.

Book Synopsis

Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.

Review Quotes

A valuable and timely contribution that helps the reader to consider the subject anew and go beyond a nationalism anchored in the nineteenth century.--Antonio Ibarra, Journal of Latin American Studies

Tutino's careful reconstruction of the varied, sometimes contradictory responses of the city's oligarchs--the greatest stakeholders in New Spain's colonial order--to silver bonanzas, devastating droughts, rural revolts, imperial wars, and fiscal crises is illuminating.--Erika Pani, American Historical Review

About the Author

John Tutino is a professor of history and international affairs at Georgetown University. He is also the author of Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America and The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000.