{"product_id":"the-mexican-heartland-how-communities-shaped-capitalism-a-nation-and-world-history-1500-2000-9780691174365","title":"The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Tutino\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Latin America - Mexico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Sven Beckert, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Cotton: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Greg Grandin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Empire of Necessity; Fordlandia;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Colonial Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Kenneth Pomeranz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A major contribution. \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate and powerfully told story of capitalism's role in shaping what Mexico is today.\"\u003cb\u003e--Margaret Chowning, author of \u003ci\u003eRebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Brian P. Owensby, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45268602814615,"sku":"9780691174365","price":3235.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691174365.webp?v=1769236213","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-mexican-heartland-how-communities-shaped-capitalism-a-nation-and-world-history-1500-2000-9780691174365","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}