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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Becker, Marjorie, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
Cárdenas, Lázaro, > 1895-1970 > Relations with peasantry.
Cárdenas, Lázaro, > 1895-1970
Cárdenas, Lázaro, > (1895-1970) > Et la paysannerie.
Cárdenas, Lázaro.
1900-1999
Peasants > Mexico > Michoacán de Ocampo > History > 20th century.
Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Michoacán de Ocampo > Government relations.
Political culture > Mexico > Michoacán de Ocampo > History > 20th century.
HISTORY.
Indians of Mexico > Government relations.
Peasants.
Political culture.
Politics and government
Relations with peasantry.
Social aspects.
Ländlicher Raum
Politische Krise
Plattelandsbevolking.
Indianen.
Mexicaanse Revolutie.
Indiens > Relations avec l'État > Mexique > Michoacán de Ocampo.
Paysannerie > Mexique > Michoacán de Ocampo > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Culture politique > Mexique > Michoacán de Ocampo > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mexico > Politics and government > 1910-1946.
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Social aspects.
Mexique > Politique et gouvernement > 1910-1946.
Mexique > Histoire > 1910-1920 (Révolution) > Aspect social.
Mexico.
Mexico > Michoacán de Ocampo.
Staat Michoacán
Mexique > 1910-1920 (Révolution)
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: official history and the myth of secular redemption
  • A culture of purity and redemption
  • From the margins of purity to the margins of danger
  • Call out a posse, gather up their music, teach them to sing: the reinvention of the Indian in postrevolutionary Michoacán
  • Revolutionary lessons, I: purity up in smoke
  • Revolutionary lessons, II: the compensations of Indianism
  • Some lessons of their own
  • An end to the innocence
  • Conclusion: the redemption of the Mexican Revolution.

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