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Jenkins of Mexico : how a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate
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ISBN: 0190455764 0190651180 0190455756 0190455748 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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William O. Jenkins (1878-1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country's wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping out of Vanderbilt, Jenkins eloped with a southern belle and settled in Mexico in 1901. Driven by a desire to prove himself - first to his wife's snobbish family, then to elites who disdained him as an American - Jenkins would spend the next six decades building an enormous fortune in textiles, property, sugar, banking, and film.


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Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
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ISBN: 9781108419819 110841981X 1108412181 9781108412186 9781108304245 1108329551 1108304249 1108330991 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the convent, the textile mill, and the elite residence. In so doing, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico advances a new understanding of how, when, and why transatlantic and transpacific merchant networks converged in Central Mexico during the seventeenth century. As a social and cultural history, it also addresses how enslaved people formed social networks to contest their bondage. Sierra Silva challenges readers to understand the everyday nature of urban slavery and engages the rich Spanish and indigenous history of the Puebla region while intertwining it with African diaspora studies.


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Connecting cities with macroeconomic concerns : the missing link : do local public services matter? : a case study of five cities
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ISBN: 0821356739 9786610086030 1280086033 0585485976 Year: 2003 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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This book examines the influence of local public services on the economics of cities. The relationship between economic development and urbanization is indisputable; less clear, however, are the ways in which cities directly contribute to economic growth and employment creation. Current economic thinking holds that the ability of cities to create wealth depends on "agglomeration economies;" that is, the geographic concentration of industries and people which enables economic actors to come together, interact, and become productive. However, this ability to promote productive interaction depends on several factors, one of which is the provision of local public services. The book argues that the quality of local services significantly influences the productivity of a city, and of its business firms. Inferior local services increase the cost of interaction, erode the effects of agglomeration, and diminish wealth-creation potential. This study attempts to assess the costs of inferior local public services to firms. Based on surveys conducted in five cities-Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Montreal (Canada), Puebla (Mexico), San Jose (Costa Rica), and San Salvador (El Salvador)-it examines the complex issues surrounding local service provision, and illustrates how inferior local services affect firms and, in turn, the ability of firms to contribute to wealth.

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Economic geography --- Urban economics. --- Community development, Urban. --- Urban policy. --- City planning. --- Municipal services. --- Macroeconomics. --- Business. --- Belo Horizonte (Brazil) --- Montréal (Québec) --- Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico) --- San José (Costa Rica) --- San Salvador (El Salvador) --- Economic conditions. --- Trade --- Economics --- Management --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Municipal services within corporate limits --- Public services --- Municipal government --- Public utilities --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Community development, Urban --- Community programs, Urban --- Neighborhood improvement programs --- Urban community development --- Urban economic development --- City economics --- Economics of cities --- Government policy --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- San Salvador --- San José del Interior (Costa Rica) --- San José, Costa Rica. --- Puebla (Puebla, Mexico) --- Puebla (Mexico) --- Puebla de los Angeles (Mexico) --- Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico) --- Manrėalʹ (Québec) --- Marianopolis (Québec) --- Mengteli'er (Québec) --- Monrealʹ (Québec) --- Monreāla (Québec) --- Monrealis (Québec) --- Mons Regalis (Québec) --- Mons Regius (Québec) --- Mont-Royal (Québec) --- Montoriōru (Québec) --- Montreali (Québec) --- Monṭreʼol (Québec) --- Montʻŭriol (Québec) --- Mūntiryāl (Québec) --- Ville de Montréal (Québec) --- Μόντρεαλ (Québec) --- Манрэаль (Québec) --- Монреал (Québec) --- Монреаль (Québec) --- Монтреал (Québec) --- מאנטרעאל (Québec) --- מונטריאול (Québec) --- مونتريال (Québec) --- モントリオール (Québec) --- 蒙特利尔 (Québec) --- 몬트리올 (Québec) --- Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte (Brazil) --- Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte (Brazil) --- Bello Horizonte (Brazil) --- PBH (Brazil) --- Município de Belo Horizonte (Brazil) --- Municipality of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) --- Montreal (Quebec) --- San Jose (Costa Rica)

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