Migrations to Mexico City in the Nineteenth Century: Research Approaches

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Moreno Toscano ◽  
Carlos Aguirre Anaya ◽  
Translator Marjorie Urquidi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Migratory Movements

The persistence of certain migratory movements has engendered a growing interest in their historical process. In the case of Mexico City, some recent studies have called attention to the existence of structures and historical trends which help explain contemporary migration (Bataillon, 1972).A study of the history of migrations makes possible precise observations on the mass population movements produced by great social changes. These changes, in turn, can be studied through an analysis of their effects. Historical analysis will certainly focus on migration as a phenomenon that affects social groups, because the documents—generally indirect—that record these movements throw more light on their causes than on individual motivations. This paper only points to some ways in which these movements might be analyzed, using as sources the municipal padrones (population registers) and censuses of the nineteenth century, which include information on places of origin. (A complete list of the padrones of Mexico City in the nineteenth century is given in Aguirre and Sánchez de Tagle, 1972.)

Burney's The Wanderer and Early-Nineteenth-Century Commodity Fetishism

2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Labor Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
The Wanderer

This essay explores a particular moment in the history of commodity fetishism by means of an examination of Frances Burney's The Wanderer (1814). The novel, which is explicitly concerned with the social changes facing early-nineteenth-century England, reveals that at this historical moment the commodity inspired emotions of a particular kind: it was idealized and perceived as attractively individualized, aloof, exotic, and changeable, and it elicited a passionate and sometimes even painful form of desire. In The Wanderer Burney explores the human repercussions of this new way of engaging with objects in the marketplace. She reveals, moreover, the extent to which the fetishism of the commodity reflected not just developments within the economy but also political change: under the influence of the French Revolution the charisma once generated by social status was transferred to the economic realm, where, embodied in the commodity, it gave rise to a pleasurable but masochistic reverence. Burney'sargument for the usefulness of economic independence necessarily leads her to appreciate the commodity fetishism she describes: even while she develops a labor theory of value, Burney promotes a mystification of the commodity by insisting on the aloof independence of both labor and its products. Thus, Burney uses the apparent autonomy of things——which Marx decries——as a means to argue for the autonomy of the makers of those things.

Population Movements and Political Changes in Nineteenth Century France

1957 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
G. de Bertier de Sauvigny
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Political History ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
History Of

The political history of France, as usually recorded, appears to be a conflict of parties, ideologies and ideologists: liberals against conservatives, royalists against republicans, and radicals against politicians of moderate tendencies. The Marxian conception of history has fortunately contributed to directing scientific research toward economic factors which might explain the attitude taken by this or that social group in certain circumstances, or might account for the progress of some parties in a specific region. Yet, research in that direction does not appear to have achieved any sensational discovery: to reduce all political history to a struggle between the “haves” and the “have-nots” is oversimplification and does not account for the disconcerting complexity of political strife in nineteenth century France.

Change Regions and Changes in Normative Market Cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Stephen Farrall ◽  
Susanne Karstedt
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Law ◽  
Market Cultures

This chapter explores the history of the three regions in Europe which are the focus of this work; namely, England and Wales, and the former East and West Germany. Their recent economic histories are recounted, as well as the nature of these economic and social changes, and which social groups are most likely to have been affected by them. These changes have increased the opportunities for crime in the marketplace for many citizens. The extent to which people living in these three areas report perceptions of change in their societies is examined, as well as trust in market institutions, cynicism about the law, and values related to contemporary citizenship, and how they differ between change regions and generations.

Divided Government and Significant Legislation: A History of Congress from 1789 to 2010

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Ansolabehere ◽  
Maxwell Palmer ◽  
Benjamin Schneer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Divided Government ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Comprehensive Database ◽  
Party Control ◽  
History Of

This article presents and analyzes the most comprehensive database to date of significant acts of Congress—from 1789 to 2010—to test whether divided party control of government affects the number of important acts Congress passes. We find that unified control corresponds with one additional significant act passed per Congress in the nineteenth century and four additional such acts in the twentieth century. However, party control of government cannot explain the broad historical trends in the rate at which Congress passes significant legislation. Nixon in 1969 was far more successful with a Democratic Congress than was McKinley in 1897 with a Republican one.

Joshua D. Zimmerman. Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia, 1892–1914. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. xiii, 360 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
Theodore R. Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

For a half-millennium until the 1940s, the history of Poles and Jews was inextricably intertwined. In particular, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, Poles and Jews alike were faced with sweeping economic and social changes that challenged—even threatened—livelihood, traditions, and identity. One way in which both Jews and Poles attempted to make sense of “modernity” (to use the word as shorthand for industrialization, secularization, and the communications revolution of this period) was to subscribe to one or another form of socialism. In the Polish lands, socialism and nationalism were never mutually exclusive, indeed on the whole, the two movements overlapped considerably. Again, this was just as true for Jews (Bund, Poalei Tsiyon) as for Poles (PPS). Josh Zimmerman's important book examines relations between the two most important pre-1914 Polish and Jewish socialist parties, the Bund and the PPS. Both parties aimed simultaneously to pave the way for international socialism and to develop their respective nations (Jews and Poles). Both parties rejected national chauvinism or prejudice, arguing in a Herderian vein that only when each nation developed its full potential could true internationalism reign. Despite their theoretical agreement, however, the parties frequently clashed on practical issues. Examining these practical differences, Zimmerman has much to tell us about the nature of being Jewish, Polish, and/or socialist in late imperial Russia.

From Transparency to Darkness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Piccato
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Jury Trials ◽  
History Of ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter follows the history of criminal jury trials in Mexico City from their establishment in the late nineteenth century until their abolition in 1929. It focuses on the organization, legislation, and operation of the institution. It examines closely the trials of María del Pilar Moreno and José de León Toral, the murderer of president-elect Alvaro Obregón, and it places both in the context of contemporary politics.

The Boundaries of Compassion: Buddhism and National Tradition in Japanese Pilgrimage

1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Foard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Early Modern Japan ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tokugawa Period ◽  
History Of

The author demonstrates how a Buddhist pilgrimage tradition affected symbolic and social changes in early modern Japan. After exploring the history of the Saikoku pilgrimage and its practice in the Tokugawa period, he suggests that Victor Turner's theories of “communitas” and “liminality,” while adequately explaining the “social modality” of the pilgrimage, do not account for the religious and cultural paradigms encountered by the pilgrim. To understand these paradigms, eighteenth and nineteenth century pilgrim guides are analyzed to show how the semantic field of the pilgrim integrated the universal salvation of Buddhism with a distinctly national tradition.

scholarly journals On the street in nineteenth-century London

Urban History ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Colin Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Pedestrian Movement ◽  
Old Bailey ◽  
History Of

Abstract This article uses statements made at London's Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) by victims and witnesses of crime in nineteenth-century London to reveal the hidden history of pedestrian movement on the city's streets. It demonstrates that men and women of all ages and social groups walked the streets at most times of the day and night, and argues that walking was not only a normal and taken-for-granted activity, but that pedestrianism could contribute to the development of a community of the street.

A Thrice-Told Tel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Weitzman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines the use of archaeology to shed light on the history of the Israelites from whom the Jews emerged—a process of “ethnogenesis”—by focusing on an archaeological expedition currently underway at the site of Tel Beth Shemesh in Israel. In its nineteenth-century context, ethnogenesis involved variations of what Charles Darwin termed “descent with modification”: humans were originally divided into a much smaller number of races or primitive social groups that evolved into a larger number of races or nations over time. The chapter first considers the work of Israeli archaeologists Zvi Lederman and Shlomo Bunimovitz, with emphasis on their proposed conception of Israelite ethnogenesis, before discussing ethnogenesis as racial evolution, the decline of racial ethnogenesis, and the emergence of a new ethnogenesis from the first to the second and third archaeological excavations to Beth Shemesh.

What Shall We Wear for Tennis?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter analyzes several high-profile moments in the early history of women's tennis fashions, accepting costume historian Anne Hollander's assertion that “changes in dress are social changes.” When upper-class women first took to the courts in the late nineteenth century, they did so clad in the constraining livery of their everyday lives. As the distaff game became more competitive, the need to shed the fetters of restrictive garb became ever more demanding. As a result, there emerged several conspicuous, controversial incidents when women appeared in increasingly abbreviated costumes, revealing their ankles and wrists, their arms and legs, and the shapes and forms of their bodies in the quest to free their sporting movements.

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