Allen Wells
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Wells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World
Few scholars of Latin American history have the temporal and geographic range of Jonathan Brown. His restless curiosity spans both the colonial and modern periods, resulting in excellent monographs on early national Argentine economic history, the origins of the Mexican oil industry, and a transnational history of the Cuban Revolution, among others. His latest, The Weak and the Powerful, is a well-conceived analysis of Omar Torrijos's self-styled…
Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform instead of revolution? All too often, scholarship has neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. This book argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between …
The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920s
Alan McPherson. The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
Journal Article Alan McPherson. The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations. Get access Alan McPherson. The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 393. $45.00. Allen Wells Allen Wells Bowdoin College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Revi…
El exilio incómodo: México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945. Daniela GLEIZER: México: El Colegio de México, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- Cuajimalpa, 2012
Daniela Gleizer declares, not once, but twice in El exilio incómodo that “México no es, ni ha sido, un país de inmigración” (pages 15 and 41). This statement surely would surprise the 30,000 Spanish Republican exiles in the 1930s and appreciable numbers of Central and South American refugees during the Cold War, who fled their homelands and found safe haven in Mexico. It likely will come as a revelation to many Mexicans. But as Gleizer makes clea…
Reports of Its Demise Are Not Exaggerated: The Life and Times of Yucatecan Henequen
Los aguafi estas: Desafíos a la hegemonía de laé lite yucateca, 1867-1910
Researchers working on Yucatán’s past have benefited from the state’s abiding commitment to historic preservation. Archives and libraries, each one bursting at the seams with primary materials, honeycomb Mérida, in large part due to the region’s fractious political past. Regional elites struggled with a distant federal government and among themselves for power and resources, enlisting the support of the main-stream and ephemeral press and the cou…
Out from the Shadows: Recent Scholarship on Late-Nineteenth-Century Mexico
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Notwithstanding Zapatismo’s recent revival, no Mexican, past or present, has greater name recognition, inside or outside Mexico, than Pancho Villa. Ask workaday Mexicans about this charismatic leader and erstwhile friend of the poor and they may relive Pancho’s daring exploits, perhaps lapsing into nostalgic corridos about his stirring victories at Torreón and Zacatecas. Of late, Villa has even undergone a renaissance of sorts, becoming the objec…
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915
Revolución y contienda política en Guanajuato, 1908-1913
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915
Forgotten Chapters of Yucatán's Past: Nineteenth-Century Politics in Historiographical Perspective
Los historiadores contemporáneos han dejado de lado de manera por demás expedita lo que a los historiadores criollos del siglo XIX les tocó vivir y sobre lo que se ocuparon de dar cuenta por escrito. Estos olvidados capítulos se volverán de mayor utilidad para los historiadores contemporáneos cuando tomemos lo que ahora sabemos acerca de la historia social, económica y cultural del siglo XIX y lo apliquemos a las cuestiones políticas en los nivel…
The Hunt for Pancho Villa. Videocassette
The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas
The Hunt for Pancho VillaPresident Salinas: Talking with David Frost
biplanes were first introduced into combat to complement the mounted troops.In that sense, the hunt became a military proving ground for World War I.If Galan and Espinosa have not succeeded in demythologizing the man, they have presented viewers with an intriguing historical analysis of the Columbus raid, which sparked outrage, engendered racism, and swelled nationalistic pride on different sides of the border.The other PBS video under review, a …
Modernizing Visions, "Chilango" Blueprints, and Provincial Growing Pains: Mérida at the Turn of the Century
El presente artículo arroja luz sobre un capítulo dejado a un lado por la historiografía del Porfiriato: el impresionante desarrollo de las capitales de provincia mexicanas. Centrada su atención en Mérida, Yucatán, hace hincapié en las maneras en que las élites, tanto locales como nacional, compartían una visión modernizadora común. También ilustra los fracasos y las consecuencias sociales que provocaron los esfuerzos de los gobernantes locales a…
All in the Family: Railroads and Henequen Monoculture in Porfirian Yucatán
A T first glance, the origins of the railroad industry in Yucatan, Mexico, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries appear to share many characteristics with similar enterprises throughout Latin America. Yucatan's railroads were built during the development-minded dictatorship of General Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911) to facilitate the expansion of the regional export economy and to reduce transaction costs in the peninsula. A mutually…
Oaxtepec Revisited: The Politics of Mexican Historiography, 1968-1988
Nearly twenty years after the third congress of Mexican and North American historians held a conference on Mexican historiography at Oaxtepec, Morelos, a similar gathering of 150 eminent Mexican, North American, and European scholars returned to that site, October 11-14, 1988, to analyze and critically evaluate what had been published in the field over the last two decades. By a simple twist of fate the first reuni6on (held November 4-7, 1969) an…
The Terrible Green Monster: Recent Literature on Sugar, Coffee, and Coerced Labor in the Caribbean
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Summer of Discontent: Economic Rivalry among Elite Factions during the Late Porfiriato in Yucatán
The past decade has witnessed a rich harvest of regional studies of the Mexican Porfiriato. There are two predominant currents in the recent literature. One group of scholars has focused attention on the political sphere, examining the process whereby the Porfirian central state increased its power at the expense of the regional peripheries. Invariably, the federal cause was advanced by Don Porfirio's ability to manipulate local factional struggl…
Yucatán's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860-1915
Collaboration and Informal Empire in Yucatán: The Case for Political Economy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Family Elites in a Boom-and-Bust Economy: The Molinas and Peóns of Porfirian Yucatán
W X 7RITING for American Magazine in 1909, John Kenneth Turner offered North American readers a scathing indictment of Yucata'n's henequen oligarchy. Turner, who had visited local henequen estates a year before, depicted a brutal, repressive regime on the plantations; in large measure, he created the image we have today of the prototypical Yucatecan henequen planter (henequenero). Gorged with windfall profits unjustly reaped from the toil of a be…
Family Elites in a Boom-and-Bust Economy: The Molinas and Peóns of Porfirian Yucatán
W X 7RITING for American Magazine in 1909, John Kenneth Turner offered North American readers a scathing indictment of Yucata'n's henequen oligarchy. Turner, who had visited local henequen estates a year before, depicted a brutal, repressive regime on the plantations; in large measure, he created the image we have today of the prototypical Yucatecan henequen planter (henequenero). Gorged with windfall profits unjustly reaped from the toil of a be…
Corporate Control of a Monocrop Economy: International Harvester and Yucatán's Henequen Industry during the Porfiriato
The thirty-four-year reign of President Porfirio Díaz (1876-1910) is generally acknowledged to have been the period of Mexico's great economic transformation. In reality, Mexico was unable to avoid the accelerated change that overtook it during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as proliferating patterns of trade, which accompanied the burgeoning industrial development of the United States and Western Europe, tied Mexico ever more closel…
Modernizing Visions, "Chilango" Blueprints, and Provincial Growing Pains: Mérida at the Turn of the Century
El presente artículo arroja luz sobre un capítulo dejado a un lado por la historiografía del Porfiriato: el impresionante desarrollo de las capitales de provincia mexicanas. Centrada su atención en Mérida, Yucatán, hace hincapié en las maneras en que las élites, tanto locales como nacional, compartían una visión modernizadora común. También ilustra los fracasos y las consecuencias sociales que provocaron los esfuerzos de los gobernantes locales a…
Summer of Discontent: Economic Rivalry among Elite Factions during the Late Porfiriato in Yucatán
The past decade has witnessed a rich harvest of regional studies of the Mexican Porfiriato. There are two predominant currents in the recent literature. One group of scholars has focused attention on the political sphere, examining the process whereby the Porfirian central state increased its power at the expense of the regional peripheries. Invariably, the federal cause was advanced by Don Porfirio's ability to manipulate local factional struggl…
All in the Family: Railroads and Henequen Monoculture in Porfirian Yucatán
A T first glance, the origins of the railroad industry in Yucatan, Mexico, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries appear to share many characteristics with similar enterprises throughout Latin America. Yucatan's railroads were built during the development-minded dictatorship of General Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911) to facilitate the expansion of the regional export economy and to reduce transaction costs in the peninsula. A mutually…
The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920s
Collaboration and Informal Empire in Yucatán: The Case for Political Economy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Family Elites in a Boom-and-Bust Economy: The Molinas and Peóns of Porfirian Yucatán
W X 7RITING for American Magazine in 1909, John Kenneth Turner offered North American readers a scathing indictment of Yucata'n's henequen oligarchy. Turner, who had visited local henequen estates a year before, depicted a brutal, repressive regime on the plantations; in large measure, he created the image we have today of the prototypical Yucatecan henequen planter (henequenero). Gorged with windfall profits unjustly reaped from the toil of a be…
Corporate Control of a Monocrop Economy: International Harvester and Yucatán's Henequen Industry during the Porfiriato
The thirty-four-year reign of President Porfirio Díaz (1876-1910) is generally acknowledged to have been the period of Mexico's great economic transformation. In reality, Mexico was unable to avoid the accelerated change that overtook it during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as proliferating patterns of trade, which accompanied the burgeoning industrial development of the United States and Western Europe, tied Mexico ever more closel…
Collaboration and Informal Empire in Yucatán: The Case for Political Economy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Summer of Discontent: Economic Rivalry among Elite Factions during the Late Porfiriato in Yucatán
The past decade has witnessed a rich harvest of regional studies of the Mexican Porfiriato. There are two predominant currents in the recent literature. One group of scholars has focused attention on the political sphere, examining the process whereby the Porfirian central state increased its power at the expense of the regional peripheries. Invariably, the federal cause was advanced by Don Porfirio's ability to manipulate local factional struggl…
Yucatán's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860-1915
The Terrible Green Monster: Recent Literature on Sugar, Coffee, and Coerced Labor in the Caribbean
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Oaxtepec Revisited: The Politics of Mexican Historiography, 1968-1988
Nearly twenty years after the third congress of Mexican and North American historians held a conference on Mexican historiography at Oaxtepec, Morelos, a similar gathering of 150 eminent Mexican, North American, and European scholars returned to that site, October 11-14, 1988, to analyze and critically evaluate what had been published in the field over the last two decades. By a simple twist of fate the first reuni6on (held November 4-7, 1969) an…
Modernizing Visions, "Chilango" Blueprints, and Provincial Growing Pains: Mérida at the Turn of the Century
El presente artículo arroja luz sobre un capítulo dejado a un lado por la historiografía del Porfiriato: el impresionante desarrollo de las capitales de provincia mexicanas. Centrada su atención en Mérida, Yucatán, hace hincapié en las maneras en que las élites, tanto locales como nacional, compartían una visión modernizadora común. También ilustra los fracasos y las consecuencias sociales que provocaron los esfuerzos de los gobernantes locales a…
All in the Family: Railroads and Henequen Monoculture in Porfirian Yucatán
A T first glance, the origins of the railroad industry in Yucatan, Mexico, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries appear to share many characteristics with similar enterprises throughout Latin America. Yucatan's railroads were built during the development-minded dictatorship of General Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911) to facilitate the expansion of the regional export economy and to reduce transaction costs in the peninsula. A mutually…
The Hunt for Pancho Villa. Videocassette
The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas
The Hunt for Pancho VillaPresident Salinas: Talking with David Frost
biplanes were first introduced into combat to complement the mounted troops.In that sense, the hunt became a military proving ground for World War I.If Galan and Espinosa have not succeeded in demythologizing the man, they have presented viewers with an intriguing historical analysis of the Columbus raid, which sparked outrage, engendered racism, and swelled nationalistic pride on different sides of the border.The other PBS video under review, a …
Forgotten Chapters of Yucatán's Past: Nineteenth-Century Politics in Historiographical Perspective
Los historiadores contemporáneos han dejado de lado de manera por demás expedita lo que a los historiadores criollos del siglo XIX les tocó vivir y sobre lo que se ocuparon de dar cuenta por escrito. Estos olvidados capítulos se volverán de mayor utilidad para los historiadores contemporáneos cuando tomemos lo que ahora sabemos acerca de la historia social, económica y cultural del siglo XIX y lo apliquemos a las cuestiones políticas en los nivel…
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915
Revolución y contienda política en Guanajuato, 1908-1913
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915
Out from the Shadows: Recent Scholarship on Late-Nineteenth-Century Mexico
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Notwithstanding Zapatismo’s recent revival, no Mexican, past or present, has greater name recognition, inside or outside Mexico, than Pancho Villa. Ask workaday Mexicans about this charismatic leader and erstwhile friend of the poor and they may relive Pancho’s daring exploits, perhaps lapsing into nostalgic corridos about his stirring victories at Torreón and Zacatecas. Of late, Villa has even undergone a renaissance of sorts, becoming the objec…
Los aguafi estas: Desafíos a la hegemonía de laé lite yucateca, 1867-1910
Researchers working on Yucatán’s past have benefited from the state’s abiding commitment to historic preservation. Archives and libraries, each one bursting at the seams with primary materials, honeycomb Mérida, in large part due to the region’s fractious political past. Regional elites struggled with a distant federal government and among themselves for power and resources, enlisting the support of the main-stream and ephemeral press and the cou…
Reports of Its Demise Are Not Exaggerated: The Life and Times of Yucatecan Henequen
El exilio incómodo: México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945. Daniela GLEIZER: México: El Colegio de México, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- Cuajimalpa, 2012
Daniela Gleizer declares, not once, but twice in El exilio incómodo that “México no es, ni ha sido, un país de inmigración” (pages 15 and 41). This statement surely would surprise the 30,000 Spanish Republican exiles in the 1930s and appreciable numbers of Central and South American refugees during the Cold War, who fled their homelands and found safe haven in Mexico. It likely will come as a revelation to many Mexicans. But as Gleizer makes clea…
Alan McPherson. The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
Journal Article Alan McPherson. The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations. Get access Alan McPherson. The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 393. $45.00. Allen Wells Allen Wells Bowdoin College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Revi…
The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920s
Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform instead of revolution? All too often, scholarship has neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. This book argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between …
Political science (23 works) · Law (16 works) · Art (14 works) · History (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (8 works) · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics (8 works) · Economic history (7 works)