On the Periphery of Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Sonora and Sinaloa, 1810-1877

Description

Author: Voss, Stuart F.

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 1982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Gilt on spine and front board still sharp, easily readable.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (though there is a sticker mark over the original price).  Sun-fading to spine, rear spine edge, and upper front cover edge.  Several “dings” in front gutter at spine edge.

Notes: Mexico in the nineteenth  century was a fragmented country, separated by region, cultures, economies, with no sense of “nation”.  “Sonora and Sinaloa illustrate well these important themes in nineteenth century Mexico, and Latin America generally.  Since this region was on the periphery, the relation between regional and national historical experiences was less clear, less certain, and the integration between the two was more arduous…Geography fostered isolation from the rest of the country and contact with the world beyond.  The colonial legacy also played an important role, distinguishing society in the Northwest from that elsewhere in Mexico.  The late development of a permanent hispanic society in what became the states of Sonora and Sinaloa resulted in the control of the region’s society by clusters of interrelated, prominent families located in the numerous towns scattered throughout the area.”  (From the Preface)  Once Diaz came to power, integration into the nation was foregone, though not without some revolutionary struggles.