Maria-Aparecida Lopes
California State University, Fresno, History/CLAS, Faculty Member
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Mercado, ganado y territorio: Haciendas y hacendados en el Oriente y el Magdalena Medio antioqueños (1920–1960) [Market, livestock, and territory: Haciendas and hacendados in Oriente and Magdalena Medio (Antioquía, Colombia), 1920–1960]. By José Roberto Álvarez Múnera . Medellín, Colombia: Univer...more
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Research Interests: Sociology, Mexico, México, Historia, United States, and 6 moreBorder, Estados Unidos, Frontera, MEXICO, Border Trade, and Secuencia
Research Interests: Optics, Medical Imaging, Fiber Optics, Nonlinear Optics, Photonics, and 15 moreNear Infrared, Optical Waveguides, Optical, Light, Durability, Optical physics, Optical telecommunication, Infrared Radiation, Low Noise, Carrier Lifetime, Noise Figure, Optical Amplifier, Electrical And Electronic Engineering, Lightwave, and Continuous Wave
Cattle stealing was the most prosecuted crime in the state of Chihuahua during the last decades of the nineteenth century, although the high presence of this theft in criminal statistics was not due exclusively to the widespread existence... more
Cattle stealing was the most prosecuted crime in the state of Chihuahua during the last decades of the nineteenth century, although the high presence of this theft in criminal statistics was not due exclusively to the widespread existence of rustling gangs. There were so many laws dedicated to prosecuting and punishing rustlers, that crimes of other kinds were "resolved" according to these laws. This work draws attention to the fact that the great amount of crimes registered as "rustling" were actually conflicts related with the growing triumph of private property over rights of "use and passage" ("de uso y de paso") of small-and medium-scale cattle raisers who, according to the authority, carried out illegal cattling transactions.
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This paper examines Mexico City’s meat supply system from the 1850s to 1967. During this period, whereas some urban centers in the Americas replaced traditional provisioning methods – abattoir system – with meatpacking companies, Mexico... more
This paper examines Mexico City’s meat supply system from the 1850s to 1967. During this period, whereas some urban centers in the Americas replaced traditional provisioning methods – abattoir system – with meatpacking companies, Mexico City continued to rely on the municipal monopoly to provide meat for the masses. This study focuses on the role that ranchers, cattle purveyors (introductores), and slaughterhouse (rastro) workers, alongside city officials, played in this process. It shows how these actors evolved accommodating to any authority in power, regardless of ideology. As interest groups, introductores, workers, and ranchers not only delivered a service to city dwellers but with varying degrees of influence, they also provided essential political support to governments. For their part, city officials protected these associations as a means of managing supplies and in the name of public order. Such a mutually beneficial relationship allowed both (interest groups and the munic...
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As últimas décadas do século XIX no México podem ser caracterizadas por três aspectos: estabilidade política, desenvolvimento econômico, e, conseqüentemente, de relativa tranqüilidade social. No contexto revolucionário, em contraste, se... more
As últimas décadas do século XIX no México podem ser caracterizadas por três aspectos: estabilidade política, desenvolvimento econômico, e, conseqüentemente, de relativa tranqüilidade social. No contexto revolucionário, em contraste, se assiste ao rompimento desse status quo. Neste artigo, a partir dos relatos de alguns personagens comprometidos com o movimento armado, traçarei um panorama a respeito dos problemas da violência e da criminalidade, entre os anos 1910 e 1920, no norte do país. In the last decades of the 19th century the Mexican society went through a period of political and economical stability, and relative social tranquility. On contrast, during the revolutionary context various armed movements promoted the disruption of this status quo. In this article, by the analysis of several testimonies, I intend to show some aspects regarding criminality and violence phenomena, during the 1910 and 1920 years on the Northern Mexico. Palavras-chave: Revolução mexicana. Banditism...
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This paper is part of a larger investigation on the Mexican stockbreeding industry between the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Based on beef slaughter indexes, our goal is to reflect on the supply... more
This paper is part of a larger investigation on the Mexican stockbreeding industry between the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Based on beef slaughter indexes, our goal is to reflect on the supply conditions in Mexico City (the main market of the country) and their relation to the stockbreeders in the North, within the same historical context. The main argument springs from the fact that the most recent historiography on the subject continues to repeat old statements that relate the so-called precarious levels of meat consumption in the country's capital during the Porfirio Díaz administration with the meat exports to the United States carried out by northern stockbreeders. Existing evidence suggests that, in order to explain the meat supply deficiency in Mexico City, one must go past blaming the external market, as evinced when comparing the situation with the case of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Moreover, since the attempts at industrializing th...
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En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX el robo de ganado fue el delito más vigilado en el estado de Chihuahua. Pero la elevada proporción de esta infracción en las estadísticas criminales, no se debió exclusivamente a la presencia de... more
En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX el robo de ganado fue el delito más vigilado en el estado de Chihuahua. Pero la elevada proporción de esta infracción en las estadísticas criminales, no se debió exclusivamente a la presencia de grandes partidas de bandoleros dedicadas al hurto de animales. La amplitud de las leyes para perseguir y castigar a los abigeos hizo que querellas de diversa naturaleza fuesen “resueltas” bajo el amparo de estos códigos penales. La contribución específica de este artículo es la de llamar la atención para el hecho de que la gran mayoría de los casos identificados en las estadísticas criminales como “abigeato” ocultaban los conflictos relacionados con el paulatino triunfo de la propiedad privada sobre los derechos de “uso y de paso” de los pequeños y medianos criadores, quienes de acuerdo con las autoridades judiciales, hacían diversas transacciones relativas a la actividad pecuaria “al margen de ley”.
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En este artículo, por medio del análisis de las estadísticas ganaderas de México y de los censos regionales de Sonora y Chihuahua, discuto el estado de la actividad pecuaria del norte de México en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, en... more
En este artículo, por medio del análisis de las estadísticas ganaderas de México y de los censos regionales de Sonora y Chihuahua, discuto el estado de la actividad pecuaria del norte de México en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, en especial, después de la revolución. No hay duda de que, en términos absolutos, el número de cabezas de animales que existía en el país disminuyó, pero el panorama de las “depredaciones a la propiedad” fue geográficamente variado. En el ámbito regional, la ganadería chihuahuense sufrió más intensamente que la sonorense, y el proceso de recuperación de los rebaños en este último estado fue más rápido. El análisis centrado en estas entidades permitió, además, resaltar el papel de las elites posrevolucionarias durante la reconstrucción de la economía regional en la década de 1920.
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Resumo: As últimas décadas do século XIX no México podem ser caracterizadas por três aspectos: estabilidade política, desenvolvimento econômico, e, consequentemente, de relativa tranquilidade social. No contexto revolucionário, em... more
Resumo: As últimas décadas do século XIX no México podem ser caracterizadas por três aspectos: estabilidade política, desenvolvimento econômico, e, consequentemente, de relativa tranquilidade social. No contexto revolucionário, em contraste, se assiste a ruptura desse status quo. Neste artigo, a partir dos relatos de alguns personagens comprometidos com o movimento armado, traçarei um panorama a respeito dos problemas da violência e da criminalidade, entre os anos 1910 e 1920, no norte do país.
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This article aim to discuss, on a broader perspective, the main historiographic tendencies about the Mexican Revolution. The paper is divided in three parts in which the authors describe, in a chronological order, core books published... more
This article aim to discuss, on a broader perspective, the main historiographic tendencies about the Mexican Revolution. The paper is divided in three parts in which the authors describe, in a chronological order, core books published during the 20th century by Mexican and foreigners scholars, that have as subject the exposition of the Mexican revolutionary process, as well, books and articles that reviewed the theoretical postulates on the subjects. As a general conclusion we consider that the main point of discussion between scholars was, and is, the agrarian features of the Revolution and the post-revolutionary governments social agenda.