Benjamin T Smith

Pistoleros and Popular Movements

The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca

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Produktbeschreibung

The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. At every level, political intermediaries negotiated, resisted, appropriated, or ignored the dictates of the central government. National policy reverberated through Mexico's local and political networks in countless different ways and resulted in a myriad of regional arrangements. It is this process of diffusion, politicking, and conflict that Benjamin T. Smith examines in Pistoleros and Popular Movements. Oaxaca's urban social movements and the tension between federal, state, and local governments illuminate the multivalent contradictions, fragmentations, and crises of the state-building effort at the regional level. A better understanding of these local transformations yields a more realistic overall view of the national project of state building. Smith places Oaxaca within this larger framework of postrevolutionary Mexico by comparing the region to other states and linking local politics to state and national developments. Drawing on an impressive range of regional case studies, this volume is a comprehensive and engaging study of postrevolutionary Oaxaca's role in the formation of modern Mexico.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780803222809
• ISBN-10: 0803222807
• Artikelnr.: 26017371

Autorenporträt

Benjamin T. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. His articles have appeared in Journal of Latin American Studies , Bulletin of Latin American Research, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and multiple edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Revolution and Stasis in Oaxaca, 1876–1928
2. The Caudillo and the State, 1928–34
3. The Rise of Cardenismo and the Decline of Chicolopismo, 1932–36
4. The Politics of Cardenismo, 1936–40
5. Cárdenas's Caciques, 1936–40
6. Politics and Socioeconomic Reform, 1936–40
7. The Problems with Cardenista Politics and the Rise of the Urban Social
Movement, 1940–44
8. The Rise and Fall of Edmundo Sánchez Cano, 1944–47
9. The Vallistocracia Governor, 1947–50
10. The Short Reign of Manuel Mayoral Heredia, 1950–52
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index