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In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo LeÓn and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local, national, and transnational levels, helped determine how Mexico would build and finance its roadways.
While Veracruz offered a radical model for regional construction that empowered agrarian communities, national consensus would solidify around policies championed by Nuevo LeÓn's political and commercial elites. Bess shows that no single political figure or central agency dominated the process of determining Mexico's road-building policies. Instead, provincial road-building efforts highlight the contingent nature of power and state formation in midcentury Mexico.
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Introduction: Revolutionary Roads
Chapter 1: "A Good Road . . . Brings Life to All of the Towns It Passes": The Fight for a National and Public Road-Building Program
Chapter 2: "Everyone Was Ready to Do Their Part": Road Politics and State Bureaucracies Take Shape in Nuevo LeÓn and Veracruz
Chapter 3: "So That These Problems May Be Placed in the Hand of the President": Roads and Motor Travel under Cardenismo
Chapter 4: "We March with Mexico for Liberty!": Road Building in Wartime
Chapter 5: "Those Who Do Not Look Forward Are Left Behind": Alemanismo's Road to Prosperity
Chapter 6: Charting the Contours: State Power in Mexico's Road-Building Efforts
Appendix A: Comparing the Real Cost of Federal and State Spending on Roads
Appendix B: Comparing the Budgets for Program for Cooperation on Roads and the ComisiÓn Nacional de Caminos Vecinales
Appendix C: Minimum Wages in Nuevo LeÓn and Veracruz for Road Workers
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