The purpose of this work is to ascertain whether Mexico was a part of Great Britain’s informal empire, which hinges primarily on economic dependence. After independence, Mexico’s image as a resource-rich land attracted British investment, but political instability and its long-h…
This dissertation analyzes the evolution of psychiatric medicine in Mexico City from 1850 through 1910 by examining two mental hospitals one for men, Hospital San Hipólito, and one for women, Hospital Divino Salvador. I argue that European based ideas of mental pathologies arriv…
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 did not happen in a vacuum, it occurred due to a series of grievances against the Porfirian regime. These grievances, which came from a plethora of social groups from the rural peasantry to even the urban liberal elite, sought to return the liberal…
This thesis investigates the changing roles of elite women in late nineteenth centuryMexico and the way these evolutions of empowerment were perceived by them against thebackdrop of class divisions. During the Porfiriato , the period of over thirty years from 1876to 1910 in whic…
