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Setting the Virgin on fire : Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 188 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520914353 052091435X 0585299455 9780585299457 0520084187 9780520084186 0520084195 9780520084193 |