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Author Weis, Robert, 1971-

Title Bakers and Basques : a social history of bread in Mexico / Robert Weis
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bakers -- Political activity -- Mexico -- History
Bakeries -- Mexico -- History
Bread -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- History
Bread -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- History
Bread industry -- Mexico -- History
Bakeries
Bread industry
Economic history
Social conditions
SUBJECT Mexico -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084552
Mexico -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084618
Subject Mexico
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012520
ISBN 9780826351470
0826351476