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Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption (review)

This is a richly detailed, narrative history of a fundamental decade of modern Mexican history that is beginning to receive the important scholarly attention the period fully merits. Niblo has conducted a masterful archival investigation, bringing forth letters, diplomatic commentary, and behind-the-scenes insight into business transactions, and political and labor conflicts that have largely remained hidden from public knowledge. He succeeds in illuminating many important questions concerning how, why, and with what consequences Mexico shifted from a radical social agenda in the 1930s to a repressive, conservative one in the 1940s. Although the author establishes at the outset his concern with reconstructing the "skeleton . . . [of] political and economic issues at the national level" and leaving to others more "innovative approaches focusing upon regional, social, and gender topics [that] can contribute additional insights" (p. xxi), many readers may nonetheless find themselves frustrated by the narrowness of his approach. Given the rich archival material he uncovered so successfully, Niblo might have sifted through the contents of that material with a finer, subtler set of methodological tools.