Andrew Paxman
Biographic Data
| ID | 694659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Paxman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Paxman |
| SIGNATURE | PAXMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6489-4881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sobre Paul Gillingham, Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship
Sobre Raúl Nivón Ramírez, “¡Y ya está encendido el fuego olímpico!”. Medios de comunicación masiva y la XIX Olimpiada de 1968
La evolución del Archivo General de la Nación (México) de 2000 a 2022: Injerencia política, retos logísticos y la memoria de la «Guerra Sucia»
Este ensayo analiza la evolución del máximo archivo mexicano, el Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), durante las últimas dos décadas. Se enfoca en los fondos de los servicios secretos y en los años de operación desde 2013, bajo los directores Mercedes de Vega, nombrada por el Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto, y Carlos Ruiz Abreu, nombrado por el Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Surgen tres factores que han estorbado un buen servicio al públic…
Policing the Mexican Past: Transitional Justice in a Post-authoritarian Regime
When in October 2021 Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a decree setting up a truth commission to explore state human rights abuses from 1965 to 1990, the reception was mixed. The president's backers celebrated it as a final opportunity to shed light on a dark era. Critics asked why López Obrador had not issued the edict until halfway through his term. And some feared that history might be repeating itself, for 20 years earlier …
The Takeover of the Banco de Comercio of 1954: Collision and Collusion between Mexican Political and Business Elites
The hostile takeover of the Banco de Comercio in 1954 made way for the era of Manuel Espinosa Yglesias, who would transform the bank into Mexico’s largest. However, the episode is more historically notable for what happened behind the scenes: the first large-scale hostile takeover in Mexico; the fact that those who lost control of the bank numbered among the country’s most powerful businessmen; the illegal participation as chief purchaser of the …
Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
The hardest part of media history is gauging impact. How did audiences or readers respond to given films, radio broadcasts, TV shows, or news reports? How did collective responses shape norms, activism, or policy? Occasionally the answer is clear: Upton Sinclair's exposé of Chicago meatpacking, The Jungle, caused documented public outrage that led to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. But media historians have often cheated, focusing on textual ana…
Latin American Media & The State: Beyond the Old Symbiosis
Observers of Latin America have long regarded the pervasive relationship between the region’s governments and its privately owned media, especially its TV-based conglomerates and its often oficialista newspapers, as one of accommodation or interdependence. For much of the twentieth century, hegemonic governments, whether military dictatorships or the lengthy dictablanda perpetrated by Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), prolonged th…
Who Killed the Mexican Film Industry? The Decline of the Golden Age, 1946-1960
During the Second World War, a convergence of local acting and directingtalent and rising production levels gave birth to the Golden Age of MexicanCinema, a phenomenon facilitated by reduced competition from Hollywood,Argentina, and Europe. However, as of 1946, high output masked a growingmalaise within Mexico’s film industry, manifest in a decline in cinematicoriginality and a dependence on cheaply-made genre pictures. Traditionally,the slow dem…
M.K. Bess, Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917–1962
Don Eugenio Garza Sada: Ideas, acción, legado
Do commissioned biographies have anything to teach us, or do they only offer self-serving pablum? The question is germane in Mexico, where independently written lives are a scarce commodity. A dearth of quality is especially notable in business biography. In contrast to UK or US traditions, which have produced warts-and-all lives of such titans as Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs by writers whose subjects gave them open access, in Mexico the great b…
Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897-1938 - by Castro, J. Justin
San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet W. D. Snodgrass once said of his wintering in San Miguel de Allende: “I think it pays to get out of your mother country, the place where you formed your basic restraints and limitations.” Echoing that sentiment, and drawn by cheap living in a colonial town, hundreds of foreign writers and artists have settled in this central Mexican locale since the 1930s. So have thousands more who simply craved a sunny place to retir…
Jenkins of Mexico
William O. Jenkins (1878–1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country’s wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping out of Vanderbilt, Jenkins eloped with a southern belle and settled in Mexico in 1901. Driven by a desire to prove himself—first to his wife’s snobbish family, then to elites who disdained him as an American—Jenkins would spend the next six decades building an enormous f…
Empire at Atencingo
At the war’s end, Jenkins began to fulfill his pledge to his wife of a return to the United States, commissioning a Los Angeles mansion and selling his mill, but one of the rural properties he had acquired gave him the chance to fulfil his boyhood dreams of farming and to develop a third fortune, in sugar. After the Revolution, fragile provincial governments like that of Puebla relied on capitalists to generate tax revenue and make them loans; th…
With Maximino
Jenkins found his most fearsome and effective ally in Maximino Ávila Camacho, brother of future president Manuel Ávila Camacho, who helped him resist President Cárdenas’s plan to expropriate Atencingo. Jenkins largely bankrolled Maximino’s gubernatorial campaign of 1936 and made loans to his administration. In turn, when Doña Lola convinced Cárdenas to confiscate Atencingo, Maximino countered with a plan that gave the land to a peasant cooperativ…
Coming of Age in Tennessee
In 1890s Tennessee, Jenkins came of age in Bedford County, with its small farms and benign race relations, while his future bride Mary Street grew up in neighboring Lincoln County, a place of plantations and social rigidities. This contrast helps explain the Street family’s disdain for Jenkins, whose origins were modest, and it foreshadows the tensions that would fester between William and Mary in Mexico, where he would readily adapt but she woul…
How to Get Rich in a Revolution
While the Revolution gave Jenkins a few scares, including almost being shot by a firing squad, it allowed him to quintuple his fortune. When rebels loyal to Emiliano Zapata withdrew from Puebla, they briefly used Jenkins’s mill as a fort. Charged with complicity, Jenkins was hauled off by federal troops, but Álvaro Obregón intervened to save him. The incident heightened Jenkins’s disdain for the Revolution, and he dispatched Mary to California. B…
Kidnapped, Jailed, Vilified
In 1919, rebels seeking to discredit President Carranza kidnapped Jenkins, but once his friends had paid the ransom he found himself jailed for having concocted the episode, a move that outraged hawkish US politicians and almost provoked an armed intervention. As Carranza looked for a successor he might manipulate as his puppet, rebels abducted Jenkins from his mill, targeting him for his wealth and his status as US consular agent. After his rele…
Fortune-Seeking in Mexico
Mexico under the dictator Porfirio Díaz bore some resemblance to the postbellum South, in its social and racial hierarchies, but what drew Jenkins was Mexico’s rapid industrialization. Following short-term jobs in the north, he responded to an ad from a businessman who was seeking someone to manage his stocking mill. In 1906, he and Mary traveled south to the textile city of Puebla, which became his permanent home. His partners included a Jewish-…
Resistance at Atencingo: How a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate
While Jenkins was developing Mexico’s most productive sugar plantation, he repeatedly faced attempts by radical agraristas to dispossess him of land, efforts he countered not only by force but also by such soft-power tactics as building schools for peasant children. Local disciples of Zapata trod divergent paths after the Revolution: some remained selfless leaders of their people, others became petty autocrats, still others sold their muscle to J…
La biografía empresarial en México: El estado del género, su utilidad y cómo investigar una
El artículo trata del género biografía empresarial en México y consta de tres partes. En la primera, valoro lo ya escrito, que se puede catalogar o como libros de encargo -que son la mayoría y típicamente carecen de valor analítico- o como obras independientes; también explico la escasez del géne- ro biográfico en este país, a diferencia de la tradición sajona. En la segunda parte, ofrezco siete razones para considerar al género biográfico de uti…
Muy buenas noches: Mexico, Television, and the Cold War
For most of its 80-plus years, the media behemoth known today as Televisa, long the de facto propaganda arm of the Mexican state, has been all but hermetically sealed against inspection by researchers. Few have interviewed its executives, let alone probed its archives. That Celeste González de Bustamante has accessed two decades’ worth of broadcast news scripts is a feat of scholarly gumption and tenacity. Her resulting book offers a fascinating …
A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States
Book Review| January 01 2010 A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States. By Timothy J. Henderson. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xxi + 216 pp. Maps, photos, index, and bibliography. $25 (cloth); $14 (paper). Andrew Paxman Andrew Paxman Millsaps College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2010) 29 (2): 106–107. …
Yankee Don’t Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950 , by Julio Moreno
On the Case of Rosalie Evans. Directed by John Mraz. Puebla: Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2004. 60 mins. VHS. No price
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Yankee Don’t Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950 , by Julio Moreno
On the Case of Rosalie Evans. Directed by John Mraz. Puebla: Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2004. 60 mins. VHS. No price
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States
Book Review| January 01 2010 A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States. By Timothy J. Henderson. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xxi + 216 pp. Maps, photos, index, and bibliography. $25 (cloth); $14 (paper). Andrew Paxman Andrew Paxman Millsaps College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2010) 29 (2): 106–107. …
Muy buenas noches: Mexico, Television, and the Cold War
For most of its 80-plus years, the media behemoth known today as Televisa, long the de facto propaganda arm of the Mexican state, has been all but hermetically sealed against inspection by researchers. Few have interviewed its executives, let alone probed its archives. That Celeste González de Bustamante has accessed two decades’ worth of broadcast news scripts is a feat of scholarly gumption and tenacity. Her resulting book offers a fascinating …
Jenkins of Mexico
William O. Jenkins (1878–1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country’s wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping out of Vanderbilt, Jenkins eloped with a southern belle and settled in Mexico in 1901. Driven by a desire to prove himself—first to his wife’s snobbish family, then to elites who disdained him as an American—Jenkins would spend the next six decades building an enormous f…
Empire at Atencingo
At the war’s end, Jenkins began to fulfill his pledge to his wife of a return to the United States, commissioning a Los Angeles mansion and selling his mill, but one of the rural properties he had acquired gave him the chance to fulfil his boyhood dreams of farming and to develop a third fortune, in sugar. After the Revolution, fragile provincial governments like that of Puebla relied on capitalists to generate tax revenue and make them loans; th…
With Maximino
Jenkins found his most fearsome and effective ally in Maximino Ávila Camacho, brother of future president Manuel Ávila Camacho, who helped him resist President Cárdenas’s plan to expropriate Atencingo. Jenkins largely bankrolled Maximino’s gubernatorial campaign of 1936 and made loans to his administration. In turn, when Doña Lola convinced Cárdenas to confiscate Atencingo, Maximino countered with a plan that gave the land to a peasant cooperativ…
Coming of Age in Tennessee
In 1890s Tennessee, Jenkins came of age in Bedford County, with its small farms and benign race relations, while his future bride Mary Street grew up in neighboring Lincoln County, a place of plantations and social rigidities. This contrast helps explain the Street family’s disdain for Jenkins, whose origins were modest, and it foreshadows the tensions that would fester between William and Mary in Mexico, where he would readily adapt but she woul…
How to Get Rich in a Revolution
While the Revolution gave Jenkins a few scares, including almost being shot by a firing squad, it allowed him to quintuple his fortune. When rebels loyal to Emiliano Zapata withdrew from Puebla, they briefly used Jenkins’s mill as a fort. Charged with complicity, Jenkins was hauled off by federal troops, but Álvaro Obregón intervened to save him. The incident heightened Jenkins’s disdain for the Revolution, and he dispatched Mary to California. B…
Kidnapped, Jailed, Vilified
In 1919, rebels seeking to discredit President Carranza kidnapped Jenkins, but once his friends had paid the ransom he found himself jailed for having concocted the episode, a move that outraged hawkish US politicians and almost provoked an armed intervention. As Carranza looked for a successor he might manipulate as his puppet, rebels abducted Jenkins from his mill, targeting him for his wealth and his status as US consular agent. After his rele…
Fortune-Seeking in Mexico
Mexico under the dictator Porfirio Díaz bore some resemblance to the postbellum South, in its social and racial hierarchies, but what drew Jenkins was Mexico’s rapid industrialization. Following short-term jobs in the north, he responded to an ad from a businessman who was seeking someone to manage his stocking mill. In 1906, he and Mary traveled south to the textile city of Puebla, which became his permanent home. His partners included a Jewish-…
Resistance at Atencingo: How a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate
While Jenkins was developing Mexico’s most productive sugar plantation, he repeatedly faced attempts by radical agraristas to dispossess him of land, efforts he countered not only by force but also by such soft-power tactics as building schools for peasant children. Local disciples of Zapata trod divergent paths after the Revolution: some remained selfless leaders of their people, others became petty autocrats, still others sold their muscle to J…
La biografía empresarial en México: El estado del género, su utilidad y cómo investigar una
El artículo trata del género biografía empresarial en México y consta de tres partes. En la primera, valoro lo ya escrito, que se puede catalogar o como libros de encargo -que son la mayoría y típicamente carecen de valor analítico- o como obras independientes; también explico la escasez del géne- ro biográfico en este país, a diferencia de la tradición sajona. En la segunda parte, ofrezco siete razones para considerar al género biográfico de uti…
Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897-1938 - by Castro, J. Justin
San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet W. D. Snodgrass once said of his wintering in San Miguel de Allende: “I think it pays to get out of your mother country, the place where you formed your basic restraints and limitations.” Echoing that sentiment, and drawn by cheap living in a colonial town, hundreds of foreign writers and artists have settled in this central Mexican locale since the 1930s. So have thousands more who simply craved a sunny place to retir…
Who Killed the Mexican Film Industry? The Decline of the Golden Age, 1946-1960
During the Second World War, a convergence of local acting and directingtalent and rising production levels gave birth to the Golden Age of MexicanCinema, a phenomenon facilitated by reduced competition from Hollywood,Argentina, and Europe. However, as of 1946, high output masked a growingmalaise within Mexico’s film industry, manifest in a decline in cinematicoriginality and a dependence on cheaply-made genre pictures. Traditionally,the slow dem…
M.K. Bess, Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917–1962
Don Eugenio Garza Sada: Ideas, acción, legado
Do commissioned biographies have anything to teach us, or do they only offer self-serving pablum? The question is germane in Mexico, where independently written lives are a scarce commodity. A dearth of quality is especially notable in business biography. In contrast to UK or US traditions, which have produced warts-and-all lives of such titans as Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs by writers whose subjects gave them open access, in Mexico the great b…
Latin American Media & The State: Beyond the Old Symbiosis
Observers of Latin America have long regarded the pervasive relationship between the region’s governments and its privately owned media, especially its TV-based conglomerates and its often oficialista newspapers, as one of accommodation or interdependence. For much of the twentieth century, hegemonic governments, whether military dictatorships or the lengthy dictablanda perpetrated by Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), prolonged th…
The Takeover of the Banco de Comercio of 1954: Collision and Collusion between Mexican Political and Business Elites
The hostile takeover of the Banco de Comercio in 1954 made way for the era of Manuel Espinosa Yglesias, who would transform the bank into Mexico’s largest. However, the episode is more historically notable for what happened behind the scenes: the first large-scale hostile takeover in Mexico; the fact that those who lost control of the bank numbered among the country’s most powerful businessmen; the illegal participation as chief purchaser of the …
Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
The hardest part of media history is gauging impact. How did audiences or readers respond to given films, radio broadcasts, TV shows, or news reports? How did collective responses shape norms, activism, or policy? Occasionally the answer is clear: Upton Sinclair's exposé of Chicago meatpacking, The Jungle, caused documented public outrage that led to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. But media historians have often cheated, focusing on textual ana…
Policing the Mexican Past: Transitional Justice in a Post-authoritarian Regime
When in October 2021 Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a decree setting up a truth commission to explore state human rights abuses from 1965 to 1990, the reception was mixed. The president's backers celebrated it as a final opportunity to shed light on a dark era. Critics asked why López Obrador had not issued the edict until halfway through his term. And some feared that history might be repeating itself, for 20 years earlier …
La evolución del Archivo General de la Nación (México) de 2000 a 2022: Injerencia política, retos logísticos y la memoria de la «Guerra Sucia»
Este ensayo analiza la evolución del máximo archivo mexicano, el Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), durante las últimas dos décadas. Se enfoca en los fondos de los servicios secretos y en los años de operación desde 2013, bajo los directores Mercedes de Vega, nombrada por el Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto, y Carlos Ruiz Abreu, nombrado por el Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Surgen tres factores que han estorbado un buen servicio al públic…
Sobre Paul Gillingham, Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship
Sobre Raúl Nivón Ramírez, “¡Y ya está encendido el fuego olímpico!”. Medios de comunicación masiva y la XIX Olimpiada de 1968
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