Bakers and Basques : a social history of bread in Mexico /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weis, Robert, 1971-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Mexico > Economic conditions. Bakers > Political activity > Mexico > History. Bakeries > Mexico > History. Bread > Political aspects > Mexico > History. Bread > Economic aspects > Mexico > History. Bread industry > Mexico > History. Mexico > Social conditions. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

"Zelo y desvelo" : the bread monopoly and late colonial market reforms
"A system that offends the hands of brothers" : small bakers and the free market in independent Mexico
"An uncle in America" : chain migration and the Spanish monopoly
"Dough kneaded with blood"
"We have no bread" : hunger, opportunity, and war
The bakers' revolution
Unionists, tlalchicholes, and canasteros.