Bakers and Basques : a social history of bread in Mexico / Robert Weis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weis, Robert, 1971-
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Bread industry > Mexico > History.
Bread > Economic aspects > Mexico > History.
Bread > Political aspects > Mexico > History.
Bakeries > Mexico > History.
Bakers > Political activity > Mexico > History.
Mexico > Economic conditions.
Mexico > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Zelo y desvelo" : the bread monopoly and late colonial market reforms
  • "A system that offends the hands of brothers" : small bakers and the free market in independent Mexico
  • "An uncle in America" : chain migration and the Spanish monopoly
  • "Dough kneaded with blood"
  • "We have no bread" : hunger, opportunity, and war
  • The bakers' revolution
  • Unionists, tlalchicholes, and canasteros.