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Railroad Construction and Mexican Development
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The social inequalities attached to railroad construction and operation also restricted the stimulus given to Mexican development. Because of the linkages among foreign capital, railroad construction, and international traffic, large areas of Mexico in the south and the Pacific coast remained......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:08:15 |
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Railroads and Economy
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Railroads in the north and Yucatán carried more export traffic than anything else, but those in the center-gulf and center-south relied mostly on domestic traffic. In the shadow of the export economy, domestic products did benefit from the wider markets, cheaper transport costs, and great......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:07:43 |
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Railroads and Material Progress
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Directly and indirectly, railroads stimulated material progress in the Porfiriato through the impact of the foreign investment that became the motor of Mexican economic change. The successful construction and operation of foreignowned railroads in the early 1880s legitimized Mexico's reputation......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:07:05 |
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The Effects of Foreign Investment
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Conditions ripened for foreign railway investment in Mexico as rail construction within the United States neared the U.S.Mexican border and as financial markets recovered from the Panic of 1873. After President Porfirio Dfaz granted three rail concessions to U.S. investors in 1880, Mexico's......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:06:30 |
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Mexico's Ability to Transform its Transport
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There were finite and frustrating limits to Mexico's ability to transform its transport and communications infrastructure rapidly in the 1870s. Both government and domestic private entrepreneurs lacked the institutional means to mobilize the large volumes of capital that rail construction......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:06:02 |
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The Coming of the Railroad
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By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, agriculturalists and other producers came to fix their hopes for a better future upon railroad transportation. Mexico's first major railway began early, on paper at least, as a concession of the national government in 1837 for a rail link between......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:05:29 |
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Industrial Process and Mexican Transport
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Inefficient transportation deprived industrial centers like Puebla of the wider markets and regional complementarity necessary for the early stages of the industrial process to have taken root successfully after Independence. For example, over 56 percent of the cotton textile factory spindles......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:04:40 |
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Transportation Improvements
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Given the low productivity of the postcolonial Mexican economy, the transportation improvements that did take place in the generation after Independence lacked the power to transform the living conditions of most of society. Mexican diligencias (stagecoaches), for example, naturally were much......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:04:11 |
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Transport in Mexico
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At the time of Independence, large numbers of Mexicans traveled from one place to another by horse or donkey, and even more simply walked. Wealthy Mexicans could employ a private coach if road conditions permitted or they might pay for a litera or litter, a type of enclosed couch mounted on two......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:03:25 |
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The Federal Road System
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The federal road system offered little geographical access to most Mexicans. Even as late as 1910, over 70 percent of the country lived in settlements of less than 25,000 residents scattered widely amid a vast and physically demanding landscape. As scholar Rodolfo Pastor has noted, "where......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:02:36 |
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