When Mexico Had the Blues: A Transatlantic Tale of Bonds, Bankers, and Nationalists, 1862–1910
By Steven C. Topick
As Joseph Schumpeter lyrically described the broader phenomenon of public finances: “The public finances are one of the best starting points for an investigation of society . . . The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal history . . . He who knows how to listen to the message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.”
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