Measuring Up

Moramay López-Alonso is Assistant Professor of History at Rice University.

"[Measuring Up] builds confidently on innovative work on stature and living standards in Europe and the United States. I hope that she and others continue to pursue this rich vein in Latin America, pushing the analysis back into the colonial era and forward through the twentieth century. Historians interested in social, cultural, and political topics should find that this book provides a crucial baseline for situating their work."—Edward Beatty, The Americas "This book constitutes pioneering scholarship in Mexican history. It is potentially one of the more important works published in the field in the last generation because of its anthropometric approach to the usually ideologized issue of Mexico's secular economic development. This is a book based on facts and measurable inferences, not deductions from a premise. It will be valuable to a wide group of scholars—wider than Latin American history alone."—Richard Salvucci, Trinity University