Becoming campesinos : politics, identity, and agrarian struggle in postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920-1935 / Christopher R. Boyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History--20th century.

Peasants.

Peasants--Political activity--Mexico--History--20th century.

Peasants--Political activity.

Land reform.

History.

Agricultural laborers.

Mexico.

Agricultural laborers--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History--20th century.

Land reform--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History--20th century.

Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)--Politics and government--20th century.

Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico).

Mexico--Politics and government--1910-1946.

Politics and government.

Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo.

Physical Description:

xii, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

"Becoming Campesinos" argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. The author maintains that the understanding of popular-class unity conveyed by the term "campesino" originated in the interaction of post-revolutionary ideologies and agrarian militancy during the 1920s and 1930s. The book uses oral histories, archival documents, and partisan newspapers to trace the history of one movement born of this dynamic- "agrarismo" in the state of Michoacá n.

Contents:

Becoming campesinos : from political category to cultural identity

Land, community, and memory in postrevolutionary Michoacán

Francisco Múgica and the making of agrarian struggle, 1920-1922

Village revolutionaries

Refusing the revolution : Catholic nationalism and the Cristero rebellion

Lázaro Cárdenas and the advent of a campesino politics

The politics of campesino identity in twentieth-century Mexico

Appendix: Land reform in Michoacán, 1917-1940.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index.

ISBN:

0804743525

0804743568

OCLC:

50291076