The Bajío Revolution

“Culminating a distinguished career of research focused on the colonial economies of silver mining, artisanal manufactures, livestock ranching, and food production in Mexico’s western provinces, John Tutino interprets the revolutionary impacts of popular insurrections in the Bajío that reverberated throughout North America, Europe, and the world. Arguing that rural uprisings seeking basic sustenance shattered the silver economy of the Bajío that had sustained early modern global capitalism, Tutino connects local ranching economies to the rise of nineteenth-century industrial capitalism and enslaved plantation labor that shaped a new world order.” - Cynthia Radding, Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“I marvel at John Tutino’s ability to reveal a world long past and the granular view he offers readers of a society in the midst of revolution. By shifting perspectives between peasant agriculturalists and local and state elites, Tutino widened my understanding of the period and made me rethink the broader context in which the events that unfolded need to be understood. The Bajío Revolution should be of interest to anyone studying North America and Atlantic in the nineteenth century. Tutino reminds us of what excellent social-historical scholarship can achieve.” - Steven Hahn, author of Illiberal America: A History

John Tutino is Professor of History at Georgetown University, author of Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America, and editor of New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870, both also published by Duke University Press.

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