Mark Wasserman
Biographic Data
| ID | 694164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Wasserman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasserman |
| SIGNATURE | WASSERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3259-665X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Orozco: The Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary
Pascual Orozco was the first victorious general of the Mexican Revolution; he led the rebels' defeat of government forces at Ciudad Juárez in the spring of 1911, which resulted in the resignation of longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz. Orozco then quarreled over his appropriate status with Francisco I. Madero, the head of the revolution. Orozco believed, with some justification, that Madero should appoint him governor of Chihuahua. Madero instead sel…
Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate
Book Review| May 01 2018 Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate. By Paxman, Andrew. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 509 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Mark Wasserman Mark Wasserman Rutgers, State University of New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American His…
Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities
In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals , Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara , arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human
All Politics Are Local: Nineteenth-Century Mexico Revisited
This essay reviews the following works:Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico: Manuel Lozada and La Reforma, 1855–1876. By Zachary Brittsan. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 220. 29.95 paper. ISBN: 9786074026177
El jefe político: Un dominio negociado en el mundo rural del Estado de México, 1856-1911
Over the past four decades, regional history has changed our view of the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. These studies by US, European, and Mexican historians have convinced us that rather than an all-powerful tyrant, the general was actually a brilliant negotiator who pieced together a political mosaic, playing off the various elites on the state and regional level. Not that Díaz shied away from coercion (sometimes violent) when the need arose, b…
Claudio Lomnitz. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
Ricardo Flores Magón followed the path to the “dustbin of history” long before Bolshevik Leon Trostsky had consigned the despised rival Mensheviks to that fate in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Flores Magón and his two brothers, Enrique and Jesús, led a small group of anarchists, organized as the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) on the eve of and during the Mexican Revolution, ranting and railing to no avail, first against the longtime dictator Po…
Susan M. Gauss. Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s
Journal Article Susan M. Gauss. Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s. Get access Susan M. Gauss. Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s.University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2010. Pp. xii, 292. $64.95. Mark Wasserman Mark Wasserman Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Mexico's Crucial Century, 1810 - 1910: An Introduction
This volume marks the fourth in what must be one of the most productive collaborations in Latin American historical scholarship. William H. Beezley and Colin M. MacLachlan first coauthored El Gran Pueblo: A History of Greater Mexico, now in its third edition (2003), a visionary attempt to treat the history of Mesoamerica and the US Southwest as one narrative. They then undertook a broader project, Latin America: The Peoples and Their History (2nd…
You Can Teach An Old Revolutionary Historiography New Tricks: Regions, Popular Movements, Culture, and Gender in Mexico, 1820–1940
You Can Teach An Old Revolutionary Historiography New TricksRegions, Popular Movements, Culture, and Gender in Mexico, 1820–1940 Mark Wasserman (bio) Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution. By Jürgen Buchenau. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. 275. $34.95 paper. Bandit Nation: A History of Outlaws and Cultural Struggle in Mexico, 1810–1920. By Chris Frazer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 243. $45.00. Bitter…
Disidencia y sedición: Región serrana chihuahuense tomochic, 1891-1892
The years 1891 and 1892 witnessed a series of disturbances in the western sierras of Chihuahua, Mexico, resulting in the embarrassing defeat of the Mexican army by a ragtag group of locals inspired by local cult figure Teresa Urrea, “la Santa de Cabora,” and the massacre of 217 men, women, and children in the small village of Tomochí. The events became fodder for myth, rewritten over subsequent generations to reflect the changing needs of the sto…
The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821 (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
An American Family in the Mexican Revolution. Robert Woodmansee Herr (In Collaboration With Richard Herr): Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999
The Mexican Revolution, a series of full-scale rebellions and civil wars between 1910 and 1920 and a succession of experiments and upheavals from 1920 to 1940, was enormously bloody and destructive. More than a million Mexicans died. Agricultural production took decades to recover. The conflicts set back industrialization at least ten years. Mining, the engine of the Mexican economy for four hundred years, in general endured less damage and recov…
Everyday life and politics in nineteenth century Mexico: Men, Women, and War
In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women-preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter-and the elites' desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy. The three key figures of nineteenth-century Mexico-Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, Benito Juarez, and Porfirio Diaz-are engagingly reinterpreted. But the emphasis in this book is on the struggle of the common p…
Inversiones y empresarios extranjeros en el noroccidente de México: Siglo XIX
El general Charis y la pacificación del México postrevolucionario
Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century
Oil and Revolution in Mexico
Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910-1940
Journal Article Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940 Get access Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940. By Wasserman Mark. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. x + 265 pp. Map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, cloth; $16.95, paper.) Friedrich E. Schuler Friedrich E. Schuler Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Spent Cartridges of Revolution: An Anthropological History of Namiquipa, Chihuahua
What happens to a revolutionary town after the revolution? This apparently simple question frames Spent Cartridges of Revolution, an anthropological history of Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico. Officially, the revolution of 1910-20 restored control over land and local politics to the peasantry. But Namiquipan peasants, who fought alongside Pancho Villa, have seen little progress and consider themselves mere spent cartridges of a struggle that benefit…
Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas.
In 1821 Mexico was geographically the largest country in the western hemisphere. By 1853 however, it was but a quarter of its original size. Meanwhile, its neighbour north of the border had expanded its territory enormously - and mostly at Mexico's expense. Similarly in 1800 Mexico's per capita income was half that of the United States; by 1877 it had dropped to one-tenth. Such asymetries have long characterised the relationship between Mexico an…
Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910-1940
British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1960 by Marshall C. Eakin
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 803 In this volume, there is no room for analysis of any aspect of the vast issues raised here. Railways warrant five pages, technical educa tion five, botany six. At every turn, the reader is left wishing for more. Being so compressed, the book reads like a list of topics to be investigated further. The author has done a valuablejob of preparing this list. One hopes he and other scholars will continue investi…
British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960
Provinces of the Revolution: Essays on Regional Mexican History 1910-1925
Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution
The Social Origins of the 1910 Revolution in Chihuahua
The history of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 has suffered from the emphasis placed upon personalities and, as a result, critical political, economic, and social issues have been incompletely studied. In examining the causes of the 1910 Revolution in the state of Chihuahua, historians have concentrated their efforts on exposing the political oppression and, to some extent, the economic exploitation exercised by the Terrazas-Creel family. Perhaps …
Enrique C. Creel: Business and Politics in Mexico, 1880–1930
Enrique C. Creel was Mexico's leading banker, an innovative industralist, venture capitlist, and representative of the nation's largest land and cattle owner; he was also the political boss of the state of Chihuahua and the key conciliator of the conflicting intersts of the north and the national regime of dictator Porfirio Díaz. In this essay, Professor Wasserman describes Creel's activities, showing how he and his family built the greatest busi…
Foreign Investment in Mexico, 1876-1910: A Case Study of the Role of Regional Elites
FOREIGN investment, mostly from the United States, fueled the rapid growth of the Mexican economy under the regime of Porfirio Díaz. By 1910, foreigners had invested well over a billion dollars in Mexico's railroads, mines, and a variety of other undertakings. At the core of the expansion and development of foreign investment was the connection between foreign entrepreneurs and the native elite. This association, worked out over three decades, gr…
Central Planning for the Market Economy. An Analysis of the French Theory and Experience
The Age of Porfirio Díaz: Selected Readings
Foreign Investment in Mexico, 1876-1910: A Case Study of the Role of Regional Elites
FOREIGN investment, mostly from the United States, fueled the rapid growth of the Mexican economy under the regime of Porfirio Díaz. By 1910, foreigners had invested well over a billion dollars in Mexico's railroads, mines, and a variety of other undertakings. At the core of the expansion and development of foreign investment was the connection between foreign entrepreneurs and the native elite. This association, worked out over three decades, gr…
La población de México: Evolución y dilemas
The Social Origins of the 1910 Revolution in Chihuahua
The history of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 has suffered from the emphasis placed upon personalities and, as a result, critical political, economic, and social issues have been incompletely studied. In examining the causes of the 1910 Revolution in the state of Chihuahua, historians have concentrated their efforts on exposing the political oppression and, to some extent, the economic exploitation exercised by the Terrazas-Creel family. Perhaps …
A Short History of Latin America
La batalla en el México rural
Enrique C. Creel: Business and Politics in Mexico, 1880–1930
Enrique C. Creel was Mexico's leading banker, an innovative industralist, venture capitlist, and representative of the nation's largest land and cattle owner; he was also the political boss of the state of Chihuahua and the key conciliator of the conflicting intersts of the north and the national regime of dictator Porfirio Díaz. In this essay, Professor Wasserman describes Creel's activities, showing how he and his family built the greatest busi…
Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854-1911
Journal Article Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854–1911 Get access Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854–1911. By Wasserman Mark. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. xii + 232 pp. Map, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $27.00.) Kenneth J. Grieb Kenneth J. Grieb University of Wis…
Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854-1911
The Bad Yankee (El peligro Yankee): American Entrepreneurs and Financiers in Mexico
Strategies for Survival of the Porfirian Elite in Revolutionary Mexico: Chihuahua during the 1920s
OA N october 6, 1925, Jesu's Antonio Almeida, governor of Chihuahua, married Susanna Nesbitt Becerra. It was a gala occasion, perhaps the first such social event since the days of the Porfiriato. The wedding was an important political, as well as social, landmark. The marriage brought together two poweiful subregional elite families with strong bases in the western districts of the state. But more importantly, it connoted the process of accommoda…
Sentinels of Empire: The United States and Latin American Militarism
The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists
The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution: Region and Theory, Signifying Nothing
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Provinces of the Revolution: Essays on Regional Mexican History 1910-1925
British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1960 by Marshall C. Eakin
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 803 In this volume, there is no room for analysis of any aspect of the vast issues raised here. Railways warrant five pages, technical educa tion five, botany six. At every turn, the reader is left wishing for more. Being so compressed, the book reads like a list of topics to be investigated further. The author has done a valuablejob of preparing this list. One hopes he and other scholars will continue investi…
British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960
Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas.
In 1821 Mexico was geographically the largest country in the western hemisphere. By 1853 however, it was but a quarter of its original size. Meanwhile, its neighbour north of the border had expanded its territory enormously - and mostly at Mexico's expense. Similarly in 1800 Mexico's per capita income was half that of the United States; by 1877 it had dropped to one-tenth. Such asymetries have long characterised the relationship between Mexico an…
Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910-1940
Oil and Revolution in Mexico
Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910-1940
Journal Article Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940 Get access Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940. By Wasserman Mark. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. x + 265 pp. Map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, cloth; $16.95, paper.) Friedrich E. Schuler Friedrich E. Schuler Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
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