![]() ![]() The Mexican business elite has traditionally been a male preserve, exclusively so until the 1990s. 1940), the telecoms magnate ( Fernández & Paxman, 2000/2013 Paxman, forthcoming).īefore continuing, I must note that my use of the term “businessmen” is deliberate. Throughout the article I draw on my experiences researching not only Jenkins but also Emilio Azcárraga Milmo (1930-1997), the media mogul known as El Tigre, and Carlos Slim Helú (b. Third, the article collates some practical techniques and sources that may be useful in researching Mexican business biographies. ![]() Second, the article offers a number of reasons for biography’s utility in the Mexican context, followed by a case that illustrates this with five historiographical justifications: my biography ( Paxman, 2017a) of the Puebla-based U.S. Several explanations for the scarcity of Mexican business biography will be given. First, it surveys the state of the field, a necessarily short section because the field is by no means well cultivated. This article discusses the condition, the validity, and the practicalities of business biography, as the subgenre pertains to modern Mexican history. As for Mexican business biographies, with the exception of commissioned works, those are scarce indeed. For reasons ideological, disciplinary, and practical, business history is uncommon, and independent business history -that is, not counting flattering books sponsored by their subjects- is rarer still. Relative to work on labour, the rural poor, political parties, and popular culture, histories of private enterprise since the 1910 Revolution remain few. Business is the forgotten pillar of the modern Mexican state. ![]()
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