Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - History by Creator "Tutino, John"
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Poised to Break: Liberalism, Land Reform, and Communities in the Purépecha Highlands of Michoacán,1800-1915
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation studies the history of liberal land reform in Mexico in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It examines, in particular, why and how it came to happen in the meseta purépecha, a region ... -
Revolution and the Industrial City: Violence and Capitalism in Monterrey, Mexico, 1890-1920
(Georgetown University, 2014)<italic>Revolution and the Industrial City</italic> makes two major contributions to the field: it expands our understanding of the structure of the global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and ... -
"The Bombs That Drop in El Salvador Explode in Mount Pleasant:" From Cold War Conflagration to Immigrant Struggles in Washington, DC, 1970-1995
(Georgetown University, 2019)This study charts the rise of metropolitan Washington, DC’s largest immigrant population from its roots in the post-war international economy through the end of the Salvadoran civil war (1980-1992). It traces Salvadorans ... -
The Persistence of Maya Autonomy: Global Capitalism, Tropical Environments, and the Limits of the Mexican State, 1880-1950
(Georgetown University, 2018)From the 1880s though the 1940s, the Mayas of eastern Yucatán witnessed unprecedented change. The region they inhabited—the eastern portion of the Yucatán peninsula in southeastern Mexico— had long been considered economically ... -
Tijuandiego: Water, Capitalism, and Urbanization in the Californias, 1848-1982
(Georgetown University, 2020)This is a history of Tijuandiego—the transnational metropolis set at the intersection of the United States, Mexico, and the Pacific World. Separately, Tijuana and San Diego constitute distinct but important urban centers ...
