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The Export Boom of the Mexican Revolution: Characteristics and Contributing Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2004

SANDRA KUNTZ FICKER
SANDRA KUNTZ FICKER
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and El Colegio de México.
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Abstract

This article explores the performance of Mexico's exports in the early twentieth century, and particularly the so-called ‘export boom’ that took place during the Mexican Revolution (1910–17). By compiling the official trade figures from major trading partners, the article overcomes the deficiency of Mexican statistics that previously limited detailed analysis. Armed with more reliable data, this article defines the extent of the export boom and identifies its main contributing factors in terms of price, quantity and structure.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , May 2004 , pp. 267 - 296
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

A previous version of this article was presented at the conference Desarrollo económico comparado, México–España, siglos XIX y XX, CIDE–El Colegio de México, Mexico City, July 2001; and at the weekly seminar of the Social Science History Workshop at Stanford University (November 2001). I wish to thank the valuable remarks I received in those events from John Coatsworth, Stephen Haber, Antonio Tena, Gabriel Tortella and Gavin Wright. Luis Aboites, Enrique Cárdenas, Cornelius Conover, Carlos Marichal and Paolo Riguzzi and read and provided useful comments on the paper, for which I am grateful. Cory Conover also helped improving the style of the manuscript in English, for which I am indebted. I am particularly grateful for the thorough reading and suggestions offered by Alan Knight.