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Some Considerations Regarding the Persistence of the Economic Elite in Mexico in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Author(s) -
GALINDO JOSÉ
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2012.00769.x
Subject(s) - elite , persistence (discontinuity) , agrarian society , period (music) , politics , political instability , power (physics) , economic history , industrial revolution , political science , character (mathematics) , development economics , political economy , economics , history , economy , agriculture , law , archaeology , art , physics , geometry , geotechnical engineering , mathematics , quantum mechanics , engineering , aesthetics
This article presents an analysis of some of the most important works on the persistence of the economic elite in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century. The study seeks to answer the following question: How did the formation and character of the Mexican economic elites change during this period? It examines the effect of events such as the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) and the agrarian reform programmes, as well as political instability and institutional uncertainty, on the persistence or weakening of the landowning and industrial elite who had consolidated their power during the Porfiriato period (1876–1911).