"This group of essays employs innovative methods, utilizes new sources, and reaches a variety of important conclusions about the Mexican economy during the Porfirian and revolutionary eras. It is a significant addition to the growing body of scholarship on the period."--The Americas

Jeffrey Bortz is Professor of History at Appalachian State University, and the author of various studies on unions, wages, and textile workers in Mexico. Stephen Haber is Professor of Political Science and History, and Peter and Helen Bing Fellow of the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He is the author of Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940 (Stanford, 1989) and editor of How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1850-1914 (Stanford, 19