Everyday Forms of State Formation

Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico
Herausgeber: Joseph, Gilbert M

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book represents something eminently new and original. I believe it will have a great impact and draw Mexico and its evolution into the general discussion of state formation, popular culture and revolution from which it has been significantly absent for a long time."--Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780822314677
• ISBN-10: 0822314673
• Artikelnr.: 21706855

Autorenporträt

Gilbert M. Joseph is Professor of History and Chair of the Council of Latin American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Revolution From Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, also published by Duke University Press. Daniel Nugent teaches anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Arizona and is a managing editor of the Journal of Historical Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword vii
Preface xiii
State Formation xvii
Popular Culture and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico / Gilbert M.
Joseph and Daniel Nugent 3
Weapons and Arches in the Mexican Revolutionary Landscape / Alan Knight 24
Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in
Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Florencia E. Mallon 69
Force and the Search for Consent: The Role of the Jefaturas Politicas of
Coahuila in National State Formation / Romana Falcon 107
Rethinking Mexican Revolutionary Mobilization; Yucatan's Seasons of
Upheaval, 1909–1930 / Gilbert M. Joseph 135
Schools of the Revolution: Enacting and Consenting State Forms in Tlaxcala,
1910–1930 / Elsie Rockwell 170
Multiple Selective Traditions in Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Struggle:
Popular Culture and State Formation in the Ejido of Namiquipa Chihuahua /
Daniel Nugent and Ana Maria Alonso 209
Torching La Purisima, Dancing at the ALtar: The Construction of
Revolutionary Hegemony in Michoacan, 1934-1940/ Marjorie Becker 247
The "Comunidad Recolucionaria Instituctional": The Subversion of Native
Government in Highland CHiapas, 1936–1968 / Jan Rus 265
The Seduction of the Innocents: The First Tumultuous Moments of Mass
Literacy in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Armando Bartra 301
The Fate of the Vanguard under a Revolutionary State: Marxism Contribution
to the Construction of the Great Arch / Barry Carr 326
Hegemony and the Language of Contention / William Roseberry 355
Everyday Forms of State Formation: Some Dissident Remarks on "Hegemony" /
Derek Sayer 367
Bibliography 379
Index 413
Contributors 429