Propietarios, empresarios y estado-naciónven el norte de México (1850-1920)

• Autores: Mario Cerutti Pignat, Ricardo León
• Localización: Historia y grafía, ISSN 1405-0927, Nº. 11, 1998, págs. 65-86
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Landlords, entrepreneurs, and the nation-state in Northern Mexico (1850-1920)
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• Resumen

  • This paper aims to show how the Mexican nation-state was consolidated between 1850-1910. The selected approach stresses three fundamental points of reference: a) The process is analyzed from a regional perspective; b) It is examined by focusing on the new entity that came to be Northern Mexico, that enormous space which received configuration after the war with the USA; and c) The emphasis is placed on the role fulfilled by the groups of landlords and entrepreneurs that began to appear in the northern area of the country in 1850. The conclusion is that the Porfiriato turned out to be a quite effective tool for articulating a nation - state and endowing it with a certain solidity. The civil war that started in 1911 supplies the proof: unlike what happened in the previous sixty years (the American invasion, the Reformation wars, the Frech intervention), no endeavors to promote secession, no requests for an annexation to the USA nor any independist proposals were seemingly insinuated in Northern Mexico. The intense relationship that powerful groups of landlords and entrepreneurs from that area held with the American economy did not modify the degree in which Northern Mexico was incorporated to the nation-state that took shape at the end of the nineteenth century.