Posts com a Tag ‘The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism/ a Nation/ and World History/ 1500-2000 (T)’

John Tutino | Imagem: Duke University Press

John Tutino’s The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000 (2018) examines Mexico’s long modern and contemporary histories, spanning from the sixteenth century, with the emergence of a silver economy, to the consolidation of Mexico City as a major world city in the twentieth century. Dr. Tutino is a professor of history based in Washington D.C. While focusing on Mexico, his work encompasses the transnational history of Latin America, and its centrality in the development of capitalism. Tutino’s book centers Latin America in global processes, namely those attached to the development and expansion of capitalism. While commodity-focused works are not particularly new, Tutino’s (2018) piece is not a work on silver or other Mexican commodities. It focuses on the agency and on the deep level of negotiation that had to exist, through centuries, for powerful actors – either Spain or postindependence elites – to exercise their dominance. While not particularly tied to Atlantic history, but rather to global movement and the convergence of Pacific and Atlantic economies and societies, Tutino’s book serves as a good example of a work that moves away from particular nation-state centric perspectives, also focusing on diverging communities within the nation-state, and their relationship to processes that go beyond the national borders. Leia Mais