Myths of demilitarization in postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 / Thomas Rath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rath, Thomas G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil-military relations--Mexico--History--20th century.

Civil-military relations.

Civil supremacy over the military--Mexico--History--20th century.

Civil supremacy over the military.

Mexico--Armed Forces--Political activity--History--20th century.

Mexico.

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

Mexico--Politics and government--1946-1970.

Mexico. Ejército--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarization was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume. Civilian governments deployed troops as a police force, often aimed at polit

Contents:

Antimilitarism and revolution in Mexico

Cardenismo, revolutionary citizenship, and the redefinition of Mexican militarism, 1934-1940

Heaven gave you a soldier for every son : conscription and resistance in Mexico in the 1940s

Civilianism and its discontents : officers, politics, and the PRI

Military policing and society in Mexico, 1940-1960

The army, veterans, and the historical memory of the revolution.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798893130638

9798890844507

9781469608365

1469608367

9781469608358

1469608359

OCLC:

843191920