| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. By John Mason Hart. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xii, 677 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-22324-1.)

In Empire and Revolution John Mason Hart examines Mexico–United States relations between 1865 and the year 2000. Hart combines his considerable expertise in late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century Mexican history with extensive research in United States and Mexican archives, personal memoirs both written and oral, and secondary source materials. Histories of United States investment in Mexico often focus on a specific region, especially the northern states (Juan Mora-Torres, Ramón Ruiz, William French), but central and southern Mexico as well (Gilbert Joseph, William Schell Jr.). A few historians take a long-term view, such as Jefferson Cowie in his account of RCA's strategy to seek the most advantageous investment conditions, first in the United States and then in the 1960s across the border in Mexico. Rather than labor history—the approach taken by many scholars interested in contemporary maquiladoras (Devon Peña, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Susan Tiano, Norma Iglesias Prieto)—Hart's analysis works at the macro level and encompasses the approaches mentioned, moving from regional to national to international movements of capital and considering not only northern but central and southern Mexico as well. The book is thick in detail and is of interest to United States and Mexican historians alike.

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