This well-researched, sophisticated, and wide-ranging study of Mexico’s export economy over more than a half-century of momentous change is an important contribution to our understanding of the transformations wrought by Mexico’s closer engagement with the world economy. Written by one of the leading economic historians of Mexico, Las exportaciones mexicanas is almost encyclopedic in its exploration of the many export commodity chains that emerged or developed during these years. At the same time, it is theoretically informed, broadly conceived, and well adapted to the diverse and peculiar Mexican realities.

This volume is a sequel to Sandra Kuntz Ficker’s well-received El comercio exterior de México en la era del capitalismo liberal, 1870 – 1929 (El Colegio de México, 2007). Employing the same database on international trade devised for that work, Kuntz Ficker here adds to her previous discussions of transportation networks, tariff policies, and monetary policies by going into considerable detail...

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