William E. French

Rituals of rule, rituals of resistance: public celebrations and popular culture in Mexico.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Constructing Consent, Inciting Conflict Chapter 2 Giants and Gypsies: Corpus Christi in Colonial Mexico City Chapter 3 Lewd Songs and Dances from the Streets of Eighteenth-Century New Spain Chapter 4 The Working Poor and the Eighteenth-Century Colonial State: Gender, Public Order, and Work Discipline Chapter 5 A World of Images: Cult, Ritual, and Society in Colonial Mexico City Chapter 6 Public Celebrations, Popular Culture, and labor Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Chihuahua Chapter 7 Policia y Buen Gobierno: Municipal Efforts to Regulate Public Behavior, 1821-1857 Chapter 8 Streetwise History: The Paseo de la Reforma and the Porfirian State, 1876-1910 Chapter 9 Proletarians, Politicos, and Patriarchs: The Use and Abuse of Cultural Customs in the Early Industrialization of Mexico City, 1880-1910 Chapter 10 The Porfirian Smart Set Anticipates Thorstein Veblen in Guadalajara Chapter 11 Progreso Forzado: Workers and the Inculcation of the Capitalist Work Ethic in the Parral Mining District Chapter 12 The Construction of the Patriotic Festival in Tecamachalco, Puebla, 1900-1946 Chapter 13 Popular Reactions to the Educational Reforms of Cardenismo Chapter 14 Burning Saints, Molding Minds: Iconoclasm, Civic Ritual, and the Failed Cultural Revolution Chapter 15 Misiones Culturales, Teatro Conasupo, and Teatro Comunidad: the Evolution of Rural Theater Chapter 16 The Ceremonial and Political Roles of Village Bands, 1846-1974 Chapter 17 Conclusion: The State as Vampire-Hegemonic Projects, Public Ritual, and Popular Culture in Mexico, 1600-1990

Business as Usual: Mexico North Western Railway Managers Confront the Mexican Revolution

Este estudio de caso analiza el comportamiento de los trabajadores, el funcionamiento de la economia chihuahuense y la relacion que se dio entre el capital extranjero y los regimenes revolucionarios en el occidente de Chihuahua durante la Revolucion mexicana

The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870 (review)

Although it is the courtship of Francisca Canicoba and her ugly suitor Gumersindo Arroyo that provides both the title and the narrative thread of this book, no less pronounced in it is the presence of Alexis de Tocqueville. Inspired by de Tocquevilles observation that the rise in democracy in the United States had weakened the power of the father within the family, Jeffrey Shumway sets himself the task of determining the relationship between nationhood and family structure in Argentina, Buenos Aires in particular, between 1776, when the city became the capital of the newly created viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, and 1870, when the nation of Argentina, which had become independent in 1816, adopted its first civil code. How did family life and gender relations change, Shumway asks, during the transition from colony to nation?