La Capital: The Biography of Mexico CityRandom House, 1988 - 640 σελίδες The history of Mexico City is a sweeping, dramatic saga of individuals confronting victory and defeat, opulence and misery, euphoria and catastrophe. A colorful panorama, told by a Latin American correspondent of the New York Times. 16 pages of photos. |
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... hacienda owners , who regularly recorded annual profits of 6 to 9 percent . 17 The Mexico City elite's strategy in agriculture was much the same as in commerce : to control market forces instead of being at their mercy . Not only did ...
... hacienda owners , who regularly recorded annual profits of 6 to 9 percent . 17 The Mexico City elite's strategy in agriculture was much the same as in commerce : to control market forces instead of being at their mercy . Not only did ...
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... hacienda . But even with all these advantages , he left his widow saddled with a huge debt of 63,511 pesos on the Chalco estate . Guerrero's son - in - law then took over the hacienda , but was never able to make any profits and gave up ...
... hacienda . But even with all these advantages , he left his widow saddled with a huge debt of 63,511 pesos on the Chalco estate . Guerrero's son - in - law then took over the hacienda , but was never able to make any profits and gave up ...
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... hacienda . His family prayed at the estate church , and was attended by doctors employed by the owner . The average daily wage of 35 centavos - about one fifteenth the income of an agricultural worker in the United States was the same ...
... hacienda . His family prayed at the estate church , and was attended by doctors employed by the owner . The average daily wage of 35 centavos - about one fifteenth the income of an agricultural worker in the United States was the same ...
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Prologue | 3 |
The Valley and Its First Inhabitants | 9 |
The Cannibal Empire | 26 |
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Alemán army Aztec became buildings cacique capital capital's Cárdenas Carranza century Church City's claimed clergy colonial Conquest conquistadores Cortés Cortés's Coyoacán creoles Crown decades Díaz del Castillo Diego economic elite encomiendas estates European father Félix Díaz forces foreign French gachupínes Guzmán hacienda hacienda owners Hidalgo Huerta Huitzilopochtli hundred Ibid Indian inhabitants Juárez king labor lake Lake Texcoco land lived Madero Maximilian merchants mestizos Mexican Mexico City military monarch Morelos Motecuhzoma murals National native Nezahualpilli Obregón palace peasants pesos plaza police political politicians poor population Porfirian Porfirio Porfirio Díaz president priests prisoners provinces pulque Quoted rebel religious Revolution revolutionary Rivera royal ruler rural Santa Anna silver social Spain Spaniards Spanish streets Tenochtitlán Teotihuacán Tepanecas Texcoco thousand Tlacaelel Tlatelolco Tlaxcalans Totonacs trade tribes tribute troops urban Valley of Mexico vassal Veracruz viceroy villages wealthy women workers World wrote Zapata Zócalo
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