Pacorro73@... wrote:

Please, Joseph, tell me....  Where did you find this
Dissertation Abstract?

the database: "Dissertation Abstacts" check with your local library for
it or your largest University library. there is another service called
"Digital Dissertations" (I think?) that lets you purchase dissertations
for something like $35 as of about a year ago. Prices may have changed.
then again you can contact the specific library listed and ask them for
ILL possibilities or if you have University borrowing privledges***
then you can try to initiate a loan through them (I think ILL is more
likely from one University to another rather than to a public library).
Checking with the originiating libary will be your last resort as I'm
sure for a $ you can make arrangements to have the dissertation sent to
you even though if it is close enought (one was UCSD) you can just go
there and look at it free (well thats the way its been for the
libraries I've attended. . .check with UCSD for their specifics)



[***University borrowing privledges



I have borrowing priledges from Duke, UNC, and NCSU via a program for
continuing education at NCSU. I think it might be possible for your to
join your own continiuing education program and secure borrowing
privledges if you are not an alumni. Or if you are some Universities
might let you become a "friend" of the library for a $ and allow you to
borrow.]

  I'ts simply fascinating!!!   So it's WASN'T JUST ME who
noticed something interesting about the people of Los Altos de
Jalisco.  The whole thing sounds very, very interesting!!  Reminds me
very much of my own family's history.  Sounds like the author is
undoubtedly an Alten~o himself.

 

And notice the name of the author, Jose Orozco.  Must be one of
my primos from the TELLO DE OROZCO clan, a descendant of the first
Governor of Nueva Galicia, Doctor Geronimo de Orozco, to be sure.  I
co-wrote a definitive article on the Tello de Orozco family of Nueva
Galicia in SHHAR's Genealogical Journal, Vol. V (2003).

 

When I did my Bachelor's Thesis back in 2001, I pointed out how
the Cristero Rebellion was directly responsible for the "Los Altos
Diaspora."  After the federal government rounded people up like cattle
and relocated them to refugee camps outside Los Altos--and in many
large cities like Leon, Ocotlan, Guadalajara, and Aguascalientes--Los
Altos has never been the same since.  Just like the author mentions,
since those Reconcentraciones back in 1927, 1928, and 1929, and after
other horrible atrocities, many Alten~os migrated to Mexico's larger
cities or to the United States, in search of a better life.

 

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Steven H.

 

In a message dated 18/12/2004 12:56:09 p.m. Pacific Standard
Time, makas@... writes:

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face="Arial">Record 27 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1997-2000

TI: "ESOS ALTOS DE JALISCO!": EMIGRATION AND THE IDEA OF ALTENO

EXCEPTIONALISM, 1926-1952 (MEXICO)

AU: OROZCO-JOSE

DN: PHD

DD: 1998

SN: HARVARD-UNIVERSITY (0084)

AD: WOMACK-JOHN JR.

PG: 297

LA: ENGLISH

AB: Covering the years between 1926 and 1950, this study is both a

social history of the Mexican region known as Los Altos de Jalisco and
a

cultural history of the manner in which the people of this region (know


as Altenos) and their supposed Hispanic culture came to be the living

embodiment of a non-Indian sense of Mexican national identity. Weaving

the history of post-Revolutionary Mexican politics with varied aspects

of Mexican life, this study explores the manner in which the creation
of

the modern Mexican state, both as an institutionalized political order

an! d as form of consciousness and being, was crucially shaped by
Mexico's

socio-racial dilemma. I explain specifically how and why Altenos were

seen and came to see themselves--much like the Cowboy in the United

States, the Gaucho in Argentina, and the Voor-Trekker in South

Africa--as the supreme example of Mexico's nation soul.



Using previously unexplored municipal archives, oral histories, and

popular forms of entertainment, the study argues that the Cristero

Rebellion of 1926-1929, the central state's attempt to break the
regions

political autonomy, and the emigration of a huge proportion of the

region's working population, brought about radical changes in the

economic, political, and cultural organization of the region that left

it and its population subject to the peering eyes of the central state,


Mexican Hispanistas, and the quickly industrializing popular culture

industry. The efforts of these parties to create teq! uila-drinking,

mariachi-singing cultural figure that was the racia
l and cultural

antithesis of the Indian icon promoted by Indigenista intellectuals and


politicians culminated in the 1940s with the crowning of the Alteno as

Mexico's anti-Indian national icon. Altenos accepted and participated
in

creating many of the tenets of Alteno exceptionalism; but did so only

after many of the region's population left their homes to emigrate to

the United States or one of Mexico's larger cities. This study focuses

on this process and shows how emigration created the conditions wherein


Altenos became active agents in their own mythification.

SU: History-Latin-American (0336); History-Modern (0582);

Anthropology-Cultural (0326)

SO: VOLUME 59-01A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 287.

NO: AAI9822919

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TI: CON SAL Y LIMON: A SURVEY OF THE TEQUILA INDUSTRY IN JALISCO
(MEXICO)

AU: ROSCOE-RICHARD-POWELL

DN: AM

DD: 1958

SN:! THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-CHICAGO (0330)

PG: 74

LA: ENGLISH

SU: Geography (0366)

SO: VOLUME S0330.

NO: AAITM04451

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Record 34 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1992-1996

TI: LAND TENURE, MARKETS, AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN

JALISCO, 1915-1940 (MEXICO)

AU: CUEVA-RAMIREZ-LUIS-GEORGE

DN: PHD

DD: 1994

SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-CALIFORNIA-SAN-DIEGO (0033)

AD: YOUNG-ERIC-VAN

PG: 453

LA: ENGLISH

AB: This dissertation explores the relationship between systems of land


tenure and commercial agricultural production in the area of central
and

southern Jalisco. The central theme is that the efforts of the Cardenas


administration to dismantle the haciendas and radically restructure the


agrarian economy were essential to removing remaining barriers to

capitalist expansion in the countryside. The ejido system created under


the Mexican agrarian reform between 1915 and 1934 did no! t allow the

peasantry to participate successfully in agricultural production within


the structures of the market economy. As a consequence of their

exclusion from agrarian markets, the rural population suffered

unemployment, low wages, marginalization, hunger and malnutrition, and

many were ultimately forced to emigrate. After twenty years of agrarian


reform, little had changed. But by the mid-1930s, with the onset of the


global economic depression of 1929, these conditions were exacerbated.

Finally, in 1934, efforts were undertaken by the government not only to


dismantle latifundismo, but to introduce strict market controls over

production, distribution, and prices in the agrarian sector. The
control

mechanisms enacted over market forces were designed to allow the

peasantry greater opportunities to expand their income, and thus become


more capable of sustaining their families. This study is based on

extensive primary documentation taken from the Archivo Historico de

Jalisco, and depi! cts the history of both hacendados and ejidatarios
from

their own perspective and in their own words.

SU: History-Latin-American (0336)

SO: VOLUME 56-02A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 673.

NO: AAI9519478

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