POLITIC, BUSINESS AND CONFLICTS: THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING A FOREIGNER IN MEXICO DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Abstract

The article explores, through three migrant-entrepreneurs: Stephan Guénot, Othón Welda and François, J. Fournier, the aspect of the modernizing discourse that they explicit in a different way; the political negotiation conducted with national or local elites to achieve their interests and objectives; modernizing practices and innovation in different fields of society and the economy, on an international stage dominated by utilitarianism of science, the power of technology, and the desire to do business. The documentation available about these three characters, comes from his own writings or documentation file that account for established businesses and the social universe that facilitated their access to the spheres of government and the establishment of social relations with groups that hold unlawfully the political and economic power in Mexico.