Mexico: a Bibliography: Society (20th c.)

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Mexico in the 20th Century: a Bibliography
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1. General Literature

Guerra, François X.; Torres Bautista, Mariano E. (ed.): Estado y Sociedad en México, 1867-1929, México, 1988

Mentz, Brígida von: La desigualdad social en México. Revisión bibliográfica y propuesta de una visión global, in: Historia Mexicana, vol. 42, nr. 2, México e Hispanoamérica. Una reflexión historiográfica en el Quinto Centenario I (1992), pp. 505-561

Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo: Triumphs and tragedy: a history of the Mexican people, 512 p., Norton, New York, 1992

1945-70:

Marino Flores, Anselmo: Los problemas sociales de México en 1900 y 1950, in: Journal of Inter-American Studies, vol. 4 (1962), pp. 157-84

Hoselitz, Bert F.: Mexican Social Structure and Economic Development, AReview, in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, nr. 1 (1952), pp. 236-40

1.1. Modernisation

cf. also: Economy: Modernisation

Kahl, Joseph A.: The Measurement of Modernism: A Study of Values in Brazil and Mexico, Univ. of Texas Press, Austin, 1968

Michaels, Albert L.; Bernstein, Marvin: The Modernization of the Old Order: Organization and Periodization of Twentieth-Century Mexican History, in: Wilkie, James W. (Hg.), Contemporary Mexico. Papers of the IV International Congress of Mexican History, October 1973, Santa Monica, Berkeley, 1976, pp. 687-710

Ortega Ochoa, Rosa María: Modernización en México: compartamiento y costo, Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, México, D. F., 1992

2. Social Groups

2.1. Elites

Cordero H., Salvador; Tirado, Ricardo (ed.): Clases dominantes y Estado en México, 216 p., Univ. Nacional Autonoma de México, México, 1984

Maihold, Günther: Elitenwandel und technokratische Politik inLateinamerika. Das Beispiel Mexiko, in: Lateinamerika. Analysen 13,1 (2006),IIK/Hamburg, pp. 7-34

Smith, Peter H.: Labyrinths of Power. Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico, Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey, 1979

2.2.1. Elites / Entrepreneurs

Derossi, Flavia: The Mexican Entrepreneur, 428 p., Development Center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1971

2.2.2. Elites / Intellectuals

Zapata Galindo, Martha: Der Preis der Macht: Intellektuelle und Demokratisierungsprozesse in Mexiko 1968 - 2000, Ed. tranvía, Verl. Frey, Berlin, 2006

2.3. Indigenous Peoples / Sociology

Pozas; Isabel H. de; Pozas, Ricardo: Los indios en las clases sociales de México, 181 p., Siglo Veintiuno Editores, México, 1972

2.4. Middle Classes

Crevenna, Theo R. (Hrsg.): La clase media en Mexico y Cuba, Pan American Union / Social Science Section, 98 S., Unión Panamericana, Departamento de Asuntos Culturales, Washington, 1950

Rangel Contla, José Calixto: La pequeña burguesía en la sociedad mexicana, 1895 a 1960, 236 p., UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, México, 1972

2.5. Peasants / Campesinos

Buve, Raymond T. J.: Peasant movements, caudillos and land reform during the Revolution (1910-1917) in Tlaxcala, Mexico, in: Boletín de Estudios Latinamericanos y deI Caribe, vol. 18 (1975), pp. 112-152

Gómez Jara, Francisco A.: El movimiento campesino en México, 333 p.,Editorial Campesina, México, 1970

Reina, Leticia: Indio, campesino y nación en el siglo XX mexicano: historia e historiografía de los movimientos rurales, 167 p., Siglo XXI Eds, México, D.F., 2011

2.6. Workers

Carr, Barry: EI movimiento obrero y la politica en Mexico, 1910-1929, 2 Bde., Mexico, 1976

Hart, John M.: Anarchism and Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931, Univ. of Texas Press, Austin, London, 1978

3. Ethnic Groups / Sociology

cf. Racism

3.1. Afromexicans

Lewis, Laura A.: Chocolate and corn flour: history, race, and place in the making of "Black" Mexico, 370 S., Duke University Press, Durham, 2012

3.2. Indigenous Peoples

Pozas; Isabel H. de; Pozas, Ricardo: Los indios en las clases sociales de México, 181 S., Siglo Veintiuno Editores, México, 1972

4. Families and Clans

Borah, Woodrow; Cook, Sherburne F.: Marriage and Legitimacy in Mexican Culture: Mexico and California, in: California Law Review, vol. 54, nr. 2 (1966), pp. 946-1008

Esteinou, Rosario: La familia nuclear en México: lecturas de su modernidad siglos XVI al XX, 243 p., Porrúa, México, D.F., 2008

Lomnitz, Larissa, Pérez Lizaur, Marisol: A Mexican elite family, 1820-1980: kinship, class, and culture, 294 S.: Tab., Princeton Univ. Pr., Princeton, N. J., 1987

Martínez Domínguez, Guillermo: La Familia Mexicana, in: Revista Mexicana de Sociología, vol. 11, nr. 3 (1949), pp. 337-353

Robichaux, David (ed.): Familia y parentesco en México y Mesoamérica, 565 p., Univ. Iberoaméricana, México, D.F., 2005

5. Social Problems

5.1. Drug Cartels and Trade

Bailey, John; Chabat, Jorge (ed.): Campbell, Howard: Drug war zone: frontline dispatches from the streets of El Paso and Juárez, 310 p., University of Texas Press, Austin, 2009Transnational Crime and Public Security.

Challenges to Mexico and the United States, San Diego, 2002

Transnational Crime and Public Security. Challenges to Mexico and the United States, San Diego, 2002

Velasco Cruz, José Luis: Insurgency, authoritarianism, and drug trafficking in Mexico's "democratization", 239 p., Routledge, New York, 2005

Since 2010:

United States Department of State: Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Volume I, Drug and Chemical Control, March 2014, pp. 233-37 (Mexico)
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/222881.pdf

5.2. Illiteracy

Ruiz, Ramón E.: Mexico. The Challenge of Poverty and Illiteracy,San Marino (California), 1963

5.3. Inequality

Hensel, Silke: Race versus class: the historiography on social inequality in Mexico and the United States, in: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, vol. 36 (1999), pp. 325-348

Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo: Mexico: Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor, 287 p., Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2010

5.4. Poverty

del Río, Marco Antonio; Manuel, Diana; Islas, Israel: México, in: Sánchez, Marco V. (ed.): Vulnerabilidad económica externa, protección social y pobreza en América Latina, 506 p., Sede Ecuador, FLASCO, Quito/Ecuador, 2011, pp. 401-458

Lewis, Oscar: Antropología de la pobreza. Cinco familias, 304 p., Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1961

Ruiz, Ramón E.: Mexico. The Challenge of Poverty and Illiteracy,San Marino (California), 1963

5.5. Racism

Knight, Alan: Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940, in: Richard Graham (ed.): The Idea of Race in Latin America, University of Texas Press, Austin/Texas, 1990, pp. 71-113

Treviño Rangel, Javier: Los "hijos del cielo" en el infierno: un reporte sobre el racismo hacia las comunidades chinas en México, 1880-1930, Foro Internacional, vol. 45, nr. 3 (2005), pp. 409-444

5.6. Social Conflicts and Social Movements

Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph: Globalisation and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for social Justice in the Americas, Routledge, New York, 2005

Brachet-Márquez, Viviane: The dynamics of Domination. State, Class, andSocial Reform in Mexico, 1910-1990. Pittsburgh, London, 1994

Correas, Oscar: La criminalización de la protesta social en México, 359 p., Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, México, D.F., 2011

Kanzleitner, Boris; Pesara, Dirk: Die Rebellion der Habenichtse. Der Kampf für Land und Freiheit gegen deutsche Kaffeebarone in Chiapas, 138 p., Edition ID-Archiv, Berlin, 1997

Katz, Friedrich: Riot, rebellion, and revolution: rural social conflict in Mexico, 594 p., Princeton Univ. Pr., Princeton, N.J., 1988

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