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Transportation Business in Mexico
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Roads and a supporting system of inns were built, but slowly and unevenly. A wagon road was built between the vital port of Veracruz and Mexico City in 1530-31, the years wagons were first introduced into regular use. These wagons, carretas, remained the sole freight wagons in Mexico until after......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 04:59:24 |
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Erosion of Traditional Transportation Systems
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Changing demographics brought about further erosion of traditional transportation systems and presented yet another obstacle to the introduction of Spanish methods. By 1600, native depopulation meant the collapse of the tlameme system and the loss of the laborers who could have built the Spanish......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 04:59:57 |
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Transport and Communications: 1821-1910
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Transport and communications powerfully shaped the historical formation of Mexico's economic underdevelopment between 1821 and 1910. The initial dearth of relatively efficient transport and communications bolstered the local character of economic activity and political power after Independence,......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:00:42 |
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Road Transport in Post-Independence Mexico
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As Victoria knew, Mexico faced a serious challenge in attempting to improve a road network inherited from the colonial period that was limited in its range, speed, and traffic capacity. Mexican roads had achieved their apogee in the sixteenth century when a massive system of mule carting had......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-23 05:02:03 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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