Nineteenth-Century Xalapa. A Review of Rachel A. Moore’s <em>Forty Miles from the Sea: Xalapa, the Public Sphere, and the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Mexico</em> (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.)

Authors

  • Terry Rugeley University of Oklahoma

Keywords:

Xalapa, historia, Porfirio Díaz, Veracruz

Abstract

If you came to Mexico at almost any time after the death of good King Charles III yet before Don Porfirio Díaz’s untimely departure in 1911, chances are you passed through a lovely mountain city known as Xalapa, spelled with an “x,” but pronounced with an “h,” like the eponymous chile that livens the region’s cuisine.  Today the capital of Veracruz state, Xalapa and its early national history feature in Rachel Moore’s new Forty Miles from the Sea.  This book focuses on the city’s place as entrepot and communications hub, and also reaches outward to shed light on Orizaba, which dominated an alternative coastal-capital route passing to the south.

Author Biography

Terry Rugeley, University of Oklahoma

Terry Rugeley es profesor titular de historia en la Universidad de Oklahoma, y es autor de cinco libros sobre la historia del sudeste de México.  Acutamente está terminando una historia de las guerras civiles en Tabasco en el siglo XIX.  Vive la mitad del año en Norman, Oklahoma, y la otra mitad en Mérida, en el Yucatán.

Published

2012-01-31

How to Cite

Rugeley, T. (2012). Nineteenth-Century Xalapa. A Review of Rachel A. Moore’s <em>Forty Miles from the Sea: Xalapa, the Public Sphere, and the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Mexico</em> (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 9(2), 403–407. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/245

Issue

Section

Reviews: Culture, Politics and History in Mexico