Mexico: why a few are rich and the people poor
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1. Verfasser: Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo 1921-2010 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Ramblings on Mexican underdevelopment -- El Mexicano -- The legacy -- Free traders and capitalists -- Colonialism's thumb -- Lost opportunity -- Internal market -- False miracle -- Death of a dream -- NAFTA.
Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and c
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 287 pages)
ISBN:0520262352
0520262360
0520947525
9780520262355
9780520262362
9780520947528

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