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Agustin Iturbide
Author_John Tutino
Bajio basin
Cadiz Constitution of 1812
capitalism
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Cayetano Rubio
Chichimecas
Conde de Penasco
Conde de Regla
Condes de Santiago
Condesa de Regla
enduring patriarchy
Epigmenio Gonzalez
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Fanny Calderon
Felix Calleja
Francisca de Paula Perez Galvez
Franco family
Guadalajara
Guanajuato
Guillermo Prieto
Haiti
Henry Ward
Hercules mill
Ignacio Allende
insurgency
Joel Poinsett
Jose Guadalupe Romero
Jose Maria Morelos
Jose Sanchez Espinosa
Juan Nepomuceno de Oviedo
La Griega
maize
Mexico
Miguel Hidalgo
New Spain
oligarchic demise
Otomi foundations
patriarchy
peaceful production
Penasco
political independence
popular insurgents
Puerto de Nieto
Queretaro
ranchero production
regime debts
regime militarization
silver
silver capitalism
silver revivals
silver-industrial capitalism
social predations
straining agrarian capitalism
tenant production
United States
worker riots
Xavier Mina
Product details
- ISBN 9781478028703
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In The Bajío Revolution, John Tutino examines how popular insurgents reshaped Mexico, the US, and global capitalism during the nineteenth century. After detailing New Spain’s silver-driven wealth, Tutino shows how the Bajío insurgency of 1810–1820 broke silver flows and Asian trades, opening markets to industrial cloth made in England of cotton made by enslaved hands in the US South - while Bajío women claimed pivotal roles making maize to sustain families and guerrilla bands. As Mexico gained independence in 1821, mining remained broken while family growers held strong. Then in the 1830s, a new silver-industrial capitalism fed by family maize makers rose in the Bajío. Women still led rural families and took on mill labor; one woman became Mexico’s leading silver capitalist. Facing that competition, in the 1840s the US invaded to claim Texas for cotton and slavery and California for gold. The new Mexican capitalism carried on until the US mobilized gold taken in war to join a global gold standard in the 1870s - blocking Mexico’s independent route to capitalism.
John Tutino is Professor of History at Georgetown University, author Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America, and editor of New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870, both also published by Duke University Press.
