"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
Summary
More than a book about bread, Bakers and Basques places food and labor at the center of the upheavals in Mexican history from independence to the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution