The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932

by Noel Maurer

After its independence in 1821, Mexico experienced more than fifty years of political chaos until Porfirio D az assumed power in 1876. Thirty-five years later, Mexico entered another period of turbulent instability (1910-29), during which the country underwent a revolution, a counter-revolution, a counter-counter-revolution, three civil wars, and four violent coups or attempted coups. In both periods, governments repudiated debts, confiscated cash...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804742855
• ISBN13: 9780804742856
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 10.3"