The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000 Hardcover - 2017

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"In this local history of global capitalism, Tutino's Braudelian vision brings the Mexican heartland to life, a small place that changed world history. Taking us through five hundred years of history--from Moctezuma to Vicente Fox--the book excels at showing how the interactions of imperial conquerors, peasants, nation-building bureaucrats, capitalists, and workers created the revolution of capitalism, and how, at the same time, the least powerful often succeeded in maintaining surprising degrees of local autonomy. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of capitalism."--Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History

"The Mexican Heartland is a wonderful realization of the injunction to research locally and conceptualize globally. Examining centuries of digging and plowing in rural communities around Mexico City, Tutino once again confirms his stature as a scholar who can capture the whole of social relations in the smallest detail of daily life. A tour de force."--Greg Grandin, author of The Empire of Necessity; Fordlandia; and The Last Colonial Massacre

"The Mexican Heartland is an excellent book. Tutino combines a big, systemic picture of structural change with an understanding of how people at the grass roots accommodated, protested, and altered those structures. His argument is convincing and important."--Kenneth Pomeranz, author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

"A major contribution. The Mexican Heartland is a passionate and powerfully told story of capitalism's role in shaping what Mexico is today."--Margaret Chowning, author of Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863

"This is a deeply ambitious book with a highly consequential argument. Tutino opens Mexican history to the world and brings world history to Mexico by telling the centuries-long story of the indigenous communities of Mexico's heartland as they faced an emergent global capitalism."--Brian P. Owensby, author of Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

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