My second book Integral Outsiders: The American Colony of Mexico City, 1876-1911 was published by Scholarly Resources in February 2001. In recent years my interests have turned to world history. My article "Silver Symbiosis: ReOrienting Mexican Economic History" Hispanic American Historic Review 81:1 (2001): 89-133 won the James A. Robertson Memorial Prize awarded by the Conference on Latin American History. In it, I take a very long view of Mexico's economy through an examiniation of the peso trade between Mexico and China from the 1600s through 1949. My next book, tentatively titled Pacific Relations: Mexico, China, Japan, and the United States, 1870-1940, continues this global focus in tracing the development of the Pacific Rim.Scholarship
Below is a rare photo from 1905 of
the students and teachers of Mexico City's American School. One of the
most interesting things about this photo is that it shows Mexican children
attended the American School, evidence of a sharing of cultures within
an expatriate community previously thought to have been a racially exclusive
enclave.
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