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Dissertation Information for Margaret Ann Chowning

NAME:
- Margaret Ann Chowning

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Stanford University (USA) (1985)

ADVISORS:
- None

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: A MEXICAN PROVINCIAL ELITE: MICHOACAN, 1810-1910

Abstract: The dissertation is a study of the wealthy men and women of the state of Michoacan, Mexico. The aim is to discover, if only for a small part of the population of a small part of Mexico, the broad, slow rhythms of change that underlay the chaotic and distracting political surface of the century that divides Mexico's two great social uprisings, the Hidalgo Rebellion of 1810 and the Revolution of 1910. How did the nature and function of the wealthy classes change in the course of these years during which, despite their turbulence, the structure of society is usually perceived to have remained much the same?

The dissertation is divided into two parts. Part One is concerned with the material context of elite behavior. The first chapter is a selective and abbreviated economic history of Michoacan, with special attention paid to trends that directly involved the elite: patterns in rural and urban property ownership, credit structure, prices, and agricultural production. The second chapter emphasizes the effects on the state economy of civil wars, the Reform, and the belated establishment of a banking system. Part Two focuses on the elite. An analysis of the structure of wealth in Chapter Three provides a starting point for a discussion of how the elite weathered the economic cycles and political storms of the period. The rest of the chapter and the three that follow treat means of acquiring and maintaining wealth: career choices and investment patterns (Chapter Three), business practices and property management (Chapter Four), marriage alliances and kinship networks (Chapter Five), and political activity (Chapter Six).

MPACT Scores for Margaret Ann Chowning

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C = 1
A+C = 1
T = 0
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W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2008-01-31 06:14:23

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