TY - JOUR
AU - O'Brien, Thomas
AB - Caribbean and Latin America 835 chocolate beverages to a commodity that increasingly Totonac vanilla producers and ladino merchants or found its way into processed foods like ice cream and not, is as inescapable a part of their history as what chocolate. As productivity increased, as Papantla in- came before. How did the Totonacs’ Porfirian strug- eluctably became more tied to an unstable world gles shape their revolutionary future? Perhaps Kourı ´ market, competition intensified locally for resources will have reason to return to Papantla again in future and commercial relations between local merchants and writings and complete this impressive historia matria. cultivators turned nasty. Land for the first time be- ALLEN WELLS came, in Kourı ´’s words, “a bone of contention.” Bowdoin College If the commodification of land is not in and of itself a new story, what is striking about the Papantla case JURGEN ¨ BUCHENAU. Tools of Progress: A German Mer- study is how aggrandizing Totonac notables, curers- chant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present. Albuquer- cum-merchants, and political officials threw them- que: University of New Mexico Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 267. selves headlong into the expanding vanilla economy, $27.95. alienating indigenous peasants from their corn plots. Kourı 
TI - Jürgen Buchenau. Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 267. $27.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr.110.3.835
DA - 2005-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/j-rgen-buchenau-tools-of-progress-a-german-merchant-family-in-mexico-50B42a0rUf
SP - 835
EP - 836
VL - 110
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -