Ferry, Elizabeth. Emma. “Memory as Wealth, History as Commerce: A Changing Economic Landscape in Mexico.” Ethos 34, no. 2 (2006): 297–324. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3651908.
Elizabeth Emma Ferry is an assistant professor of anthropology at Brandeis University. She gives an insightful assessment of the history and describes the importance of the silver mining production in Guanajuato, Mexico. In her thesis, she analyzes the alienable and inalienable forms of heritage that form locally by explaining the analogy between the history and memory of Guanajuato inhabitants. This article will help support my argument that silver production shaped Guanajuato's economic and social status in Mexico during…show more content… Its impact and globalization on the local economy throughout its history. Ferry also explains how the mining industry helped further maintain the elite social groups and hierarchy of Mexico, mainly those of European descent. Throughout the book, she recalls the belief of patrimonio, which is the ideal of heritage that primarily benefits only elite families from the production of silver and left lower social groups as the labor force to work the…show more content… Martin. This is a great primary source that shows the daily operation of mines in detail. In addition, he gives a thorough narration of the social, economic and political factors affecting Guanajuato during that time. His purpose for this work is to provide an argument for investors to commit to Guanajuato as a place to venture and build capital equity. The author explains his reasoning for writing these accounts is to gather interest in these regions from the United States and Great Britain. He believes that neither the Spanish nor Mexican people have the knowledge to handle the mines.
Rankine, Margaret E. “The Mexican Mining Industry in the Nineteenth Century with Special Reference to Guanajuato.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 11, no. 1. 1 (1992): 29–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/3338598.
In this article, Margaret Rankine discusses the production of silver in Guanajuato, Mexico, and how it came to be. Her thesis argument is that the mining industry prolonged the colonial period in Guanajuato but after it became a loss of profit for the European investors after they were no longer able to operate as a colonial hierarchy. As the elite families were not able to continue to control the mass of common folks of Guanajuato. This was due to the lack of labor and shortage of silver toward the end of the 19th century.
Tutino, John. The. Making a New World : Founding Capitalism
