Setting the Virgin on fire : Lz̀aro Cr̀denas, Michoacǹ peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becker, Marjorie, 1952- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970--Relations with peasantry.

Cárdenas, Lázaro.

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

Peasants.

Indians of Mexico--Government relations--20th century--Mexico--Michoacâan de Ocampo.

Indians of Mexico.

Political culture--History--Mexico--Michoacâan de Ocampo.

Political culture.

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

Mexico.

Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1995

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Provides convincing revision of the 'myth of secular redemption' surrounding Lázaro Cárdenas and his program of land distribution to the campesinos. Operating on a 'stripped-down image of land-hungry peasants,' Cárdenas and his supporters underestimated the difficulty of gaining peasant allegiance to the post-revolutionary government and initially failed to understand that they were confronting a cultural as well as an economic problem as they tried to extend revolutionary hegemony"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

LIST OF MAPS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 Introduction: Official History and the Myth of Secular Redemption

2 A Culture of Purity and Redemption

3 From the Margins of Purity to the Margins of Danger

4 Call Out a Posse, Gather Up Their Music, Teach Them to Sing: The Reinvention of the Indian in Postrevolutionary Michoacan

5 Revolutionary Lessons, I: Purity up in Smoke

6 Revolutionary Lessons, II: The Compensations oflndianism

7 Some Lessons of Their Own

8 An End to the Innocence

Conclusion: The Redemption of the Mexican Revolution

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780585299457

0585299455

9780520914353

052091435X

OCLC:

1419789218