Revolutionary ideology and political destiny in Mexico, 1928-1934 : Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda / Eitan Ginzberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginzberg, Eytan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970--Political activity--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo.

Cárdenas, Lázaro.

Tejeda, Adalberto, 1883-1960--Political activity--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State).

Tejeda, Adalberto.

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

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

East Sussex, England : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><B>Eitan Ginzberg</B> is the author of <I>Genocide, Encounter and Clash: The Destruction of the Indian Nations in Latin America </I>and <I>Lazaro Cardenas: Gobernador De Michoacan, 1928-1932</I>. His research focuses on questions of infrapolitical resistance, history and culture of Latin America, and the study of genocide. He is a researcher at the Sverdlin Institute of Latin American History and Culture at the University of Tel Aviv.</div>

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Maps and Tables; LIst of Illustrations; Introduction; Background; The Main Characters; The Conceptual Framework; Methodology and Sources; 1 Veracruz and Michoacán on the Threshold of a New Era; Background; Indices of Industrialization and Political Sophistication; Agrarian Structure as an Index of Revolutionary Dynamism; Grassroots Organization and Its Influence on the Development of Agrarianism; Tejeda's Road to Power; Cárdenas's Road to Power; Towards a New Era?

2 Towards Reform: The Development of Leadership Patterns and a Political InfrastructurePriorities and Modes of Operation; Organizing the Masses; The Veracruz Agrarian League: Organizational and Ideological Bases; The Veracruz League as a Power Base; Why Veracruz Had No United Proletarian Front; The Basis of the Michoacán Labor Confederation; Organization as a Reflection of the Concepts of the State and of the Nature of Social Change; Taking Over the Sphere of Local Government; Rationale and Techniques; Integration of Power in the Michoacán Municipios

Integration of Power in the Veracruz MunicipiosThe Takeover of the City of Veracruz; Reaping the Fruits of Success; Politico-Administrative Reclassification of Villages; Establishing Personal Authority in the Local and National Spheres; Political Power and the Test of Recognition; 3 The Shaping of a New Civil Consciousness; Motives for Developing a New Consciousness and a Revolutionary Ethos; The Education System before the Advent of Cárdenas and Tejeda; Cardenist Education as a Revolutionary Mission; The Rehabilitation of the Veracruz Education System

The Ideological Orientation: Socialist Education in VeracruzTejeda and Cárdenas: A Parting of the Ways; The Battle against the Church; 4 The Salvation of Agrarianism: The Ejido Issue; Introduction; Missed Opportunities for Agrarian Reform; Saving the Ejido: The Ideological Dimension; Cárdenas and the Ejidal Ethos; Tejeda and the Ejidal State; Saving the Ejido: Organization and Consciousness-Raising; Reinforcing the Administrative Framework; The Battle over Ejidal Petitions; Protecting the Nascent Ejido; Implementing the Reform in the Field

Arrangements to Help Potential Ejidatarios Survive the Waiting Period: VeracruzArrangements to Help Potential Ejidatarios Survive the Waiting Period: Michoacán; The Implementation of the Ejidal Reform: Quantity and Quality; Defending the New Ejido; The Cooperative Basis: Veracruz Did More; Easing the Ejidos' Tax Burden: Conflicting Trends; The Salvation of the Ejido: A Pyrrhic Victory?; 5 From Ejidal Agrarianism to Total Agrarianism; The Importance of Private Land; The Return of the Forest Land to the Meseta Tarasca Communities in Michoacán

Preparing the Way for the Creation of Private Smallholdings in Michoacán

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782842347